quotes on photography

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary


Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? ~Douglas Jerrold


It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. ~Author unknown, as seen on a bumper sticker


In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ~Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927


I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam


Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ~Orson Rega Card


Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge


Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. ~Tim McMahon


Curlers do it hard. ~Saying of the sport


Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare


The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation... such is the nature of art. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~Henry J. Kaiser


In today already walks tomorrow. ~Friedrich von Schiller


I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. ~Bob Lemon, 1977


Man maketh a death which Nature never made. ~Edward Young


Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer


All generalizations are bad. ~R.H. Grenier


Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment. ~Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, 1987


Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~Fred Allen


Love inverts hate. ~Carrie Latet