“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

Richard Avedon

“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”

Gilles Peress

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“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”

Diane Arbus

“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it… look before they cross the road.”

Stephen Hawking

“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”

Ralph Hattersley

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”

Robert Frank

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Alfred Stieglitz

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

Ansel Adams

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“But, in fact, a person’s sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.”

Ayn Rand, The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought