La clientela del Bar O'Rourke's, Brooklyn, 1960s | William Gedney

Crowd at O'Rourke's Bar in Brooklyn, 1960s.

William Gedney Photographs and Writings.

Duke University Library.

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/ 

"Puede que sientas que una cosa debe ser perfecta antes de mostrarla al público, o quizás estés dispuesto a sacarla a la luz aún a sabiendas de que no es perfecta, porque pones empeño en algo incluso por encima de lo que has logrado hasta entonces, pero poniendo demasiado empeño en la perfección sabes que puedes perder el verdadero destello de vida, el verdadero espíritu de esa cosa que sabes que en cierto punto se muestra en lo que has hecho, y que interferir con eso sería destruir su cualidad vital", William Gedney: "Either you feel a thing must be perfect before you present it to the public, or you are willing to let it go out even knowing it is not perfect, because you are striving for some thing even before what you have achieved, but in striving too hard for perfection you know you may lose the very glimmer of life, the very spirit of the thing that you also know exists at a particular point in what you have done; and that is to interfere with it would be to destroy that very living quality." 



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