I wished to live deliberately […], and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. […] I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Richard Avedon

[The story of Cain and Abel is] a history of humankind in any age or culture or race. […] Confucius tells men how they should live to have good and successful lives. But [‘thou mayest’] — this is a ladder to climb to the stars. […] It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.

— Lee (East of Eden)

[M]edicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

— John Keating (Dead Poets Society)

If you’re not good enough, then you’re not reading enough. […] Photography is not actually about taking pictures — taking pictures is incidental. It’s a by-product, in a sense, of everything else.

— Paolo Pellegrin

It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

— unknown