Hussein Mohamoud

“Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn’t know how to lie.”
― Janet Malcolm, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

“Creative work in any established system of thought takes place at the boundaries of the system, where its powers of explanation are least developed and its vulnerability to outside attack is most marked.”
― Janet Malcolm, In the Freud Archives

“The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and 'the public's right to know'; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer

“I remember a seminar I once attended that was led by a brilliant and flamboyant Hungarian analyst named Robert Bak. The issue under debate was the nature of transference, and I raised my hand and asked rhetorically, "What would you call an interpersonal relationship where infantile wishes, and defenses against those wishes, get expressed in such a way that the persons within that relationship don't see each other for what they objectively are but, rather, view each other in terms of their infantile needs and their infantile conflicts. What would you call that?" And Bak looked over at me ironically and said, 'I'd call that life.”
― Janet Malcolm