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Candid (adj.)

can·did | \ ˈkan-dəd \

Definition of Candid

1 : marked by honest sincere expression

2: free from bias, prejudice, or malice : FAIR

3: relating to or being photography of subjects acting naturally or spontaneously without being posed

"Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc."

-Treebeard

"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."

- Cormac McCarthy

"I don't care what society thinks. They're nothing anyway. They're no better than me. Out there you just have to fit into a pattern that somebody's already laid out for you. Life we live, you have to set your own patterns, your own ideals. You have to handle the whole job yourself."

- John Taylor

"I think a lot of people, if they turned off the television and just took out the camera instead, they would start making the world a more beautiful place, a more interesting place."

- Thorsten Von Overgaard

"But now I can see that I am getting older because there are waves of memory, a tide that wants to sweep me back to where I came from. This will not occur but I must experience its effects. I, who have spent my time meditating on difference, am now presented with 'similarity' - what I experienced then and what I remember now."

-Donald Richie

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job".

- Whiplash (2013 film)

“This race and this country and this life produced me — I shall express myself as I am.”

-James Joyce

"You don't have to land the trick, the beauty is in the attempt."

-Dave Chappelle

"What I find really scary, though, is the media. Especially television, it's so limited as to what it shows. And when that gets out, it really makes people biased, and creates an illusion that the tiny detail they focus on is the whole picture. When I was out in front of Kodemmacho Station, certainly that one block was in an abnormal state, but all around us the world carried on the same as ever. Cars were going by. Thinking back over it now, it was eerie. The contrast was just so weird. But on television they only showed the abnormal part, quite different from the actual impression I had. It just made me realize all the more how frightening television is."

-Haruki Murakami, Underground (The Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack)

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

-Herman Melville

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them."

-John Waters

"Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences. Co-incidence means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time, they meet."

-Milan Kundera

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

-Jim Jarmusch

“Don’t worry: just do it everyday, as often as you can, don’t stop thinking about it ever! Tell the story that is your own story, even if familiar. Find the thing that is just for you and keep track of it, and if nobody looks at it, so what. Make something that is yours and be satisfied with that. I think if you do that truly, be true to yourself, great things will come.”

- Daniel Arnold

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

— William Faulkner

"It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else."

- David Lynch

"It's practice, it's training and experimenting while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be and that's what magic is to me"

-David Blaine

"Never play to the gallery, I think, but you never learn that, until much later on, I think. But never work for other people at what you do, always remember that the reason that you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself that you felt that if you could manifest it in some way you would understand more about yourself and how you coexist with the rest of society.

I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other peoples expectations, I think they generally produce their worst work when they do that.

The other thing I would say, if you feel safe in the area that you’re working in you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in, go a little bit out of your depth and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."

- David Bowie

Squidward: The noises! How are you two making those noises?

Patrick: That's easy. All you need is a box.

SpongeBob: And... [makes another rainbow with his hands] ...imagination.

- SpongeBob SquarePants, 'Idiot Box' Episode

“If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.”

-Captain Jack Sparrow

"Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now: students. If they can do it why not us?"

-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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