Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

– Jacques Barzun

Photography is the embalmers craft. When I photograph something my camera kills it, and I must gently and with love restore it with the life I witnessed with my own eyes, so that others can see what I saw. To do less would be merely to exhibit a corpse.

– Clayton Cubitt

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

– Bertrand Russell

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

– Diane Arbus

Mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.