Reality is always extraordinary

Mary Ellen Mark

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Oscar Wilde

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre.

Walter Benjamin

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

The only true voyage of discovery… would be not to visit strange lands but to behold the universe through the eyes of another…

Marcel Proust

Nothing could be worse than a return to normality.

Arundhati Roy

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Mae West

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

Imogen Cunningham

The one who plants trees, knowing that they will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

Seeing is not as simple as looking.

Joseph Kosuth

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Without deviations from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for a hundred years, educate children.

Confucius