"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." -Dorthea Lange
“I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.†-Minor White
"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking." -Brooks Anderson
"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." -Robert Heinecken
"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man." -Edward Steichen
"It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours." -James Lalropui Keivom
"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be." -Edward Weston
"A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." Oscar Wilde
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.†-Dorothea Lange
"There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval." -George Santayana
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." -Henry David Thoreau
"When love is not madness, it is not love." -Pedro Calderon de la Barc
"The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand." -Blaise Pascal
"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about himself." -S. I. Hayakawa
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality." -John F. Kennedy
"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." -Anatole France
"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself." -Harriet Uts Nelson
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." -Epictetus
"The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse." -William James
"The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from your daily victory and defeat." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"Emotional pain always results when life's experiences go beyond the answers we already have. Dig deeper for more wisdom or go on hurting." -David Riddell.
"We cannot become who we need to be by remaining who we are. Invent yourself everyday." -Unknown
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." -Douglas Adams
"If man's 50,000 years on this planet are divided into lifetimes of approximately 62 years, then there have been 800 such lifetimes. Of these over 600 were spent in caves, only the last 70 have had written communications and only the last six have had printed words. But of them the most crucial is our lifetime - the 800th. This one lifetime is the centre of history with as much happening in it as in all the previous lifetimes put together." -Alvin Toffler
"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!" -Iris Murdoch
"I like a man who grins when he fights." -Winston Churchill
"Not loving is but a long dying." -Wu Ti
"While reading an old book of my grandmother's about Palestine, I came across a passage about how the people there 'would treat all travelers as a wandering Christ,' taking strangers into their home as honored guests. We have lost this in our culture. We lock our doors and our churches. We are afraid of anyone different instead of wishing to know, and acknowledging that only differences are what make life interesting. We don't want to know what is around the corner and what is beyond the bend or what is behind the veil or who has the best story to tell or who will point out to us the unimaginable.
This loss of hospitality, then suspicion, then persecution- this causes the ache at the heart of humanity that we are experiencing all over the world today." -Crystal M. Olson
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." -Elliott Erwitt
"I think over again
My small adventures, my fears.
The small ones that seemed so big,
For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing, the only thing:
To live to see the great day that dawns,
And the light that fills the world." -old Inuit song
"When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet." -Chinese Proverb
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." -Winston Churchill
"Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand." -Confucius
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." -Confucius
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." -Albert Einstein
"If you work on your mind with your mind, how can you avoid immense confusion?" -Seng-Ts'an
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." -Charles Darwin
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes...Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." -Alan Watts
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." -Edward Abbey
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter." -Winston Churchill
"I'm the decider." -George W. Bush
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