"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."

-Samuel Johnson

 

“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”

― Susan Sontag

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." -G.K. Chesterton

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”

― Diane Arbus

Popular culture is the testbed of our futurity.

-William Gibson

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose”

-Langston Hughes

"There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say that which offers no outer or inner truth."

-Rodin

"Poetry is a distinct faculty, — it won't come when called, — you may as well whistle for a wind."

-Byron

"I’ve always liked fiddling about with stuff as a way of thinking. Because I’m not sure I trust thinking by itself. In fact, it’s got me into a lot of trouble."

-Anthony Gormley, Sculptor

"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step: Which is the sublime, and which the ridiculous, every one must settle for himself."

                                                                                                                    - Augustus de Morgan