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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

- Susan Sontag

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

- Brooks Atkinson

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

- Diane Arbus

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things: a painting and a photograph.

- Janet Malcolm

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

- Susan Sontag

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited; and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

- Edward Steichen

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

- Ernst Haas

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

- Henri Cartier Bresson

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

- Pablo Picasso

Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

- Susan Sontag

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

- Diane Arbus