Reality is always extraordinary
Mary Ellen Mark
Quotes
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
I don't want art for a few,
any more than education for a few,
or freedom for a few.William Morris
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.Marcus Aurelius
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Alasdair Gray
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Industry without art is brutality.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Story telling reveals meaning without the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt
Art is not a thing;
it is a way.Elbert Hubbard
A photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
John Berger
The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
William Shakespeare
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Alfred North Whitehead
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese proverb
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Cesar A. Cruz
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Goethe
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
Robert Frank