"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." -Teddy Roosevelt

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." -Ansel Adams

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” - Jack Kerouac

"I shivered in those solitudes when I heard the voice of the salt in the desert." -Pablo Neruda

"Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible." -Paul Klee

"Not all those who wander are lost."-J.R.R. Tolkien                                                             

"It does not matter that much, after all, if a picture is in focus or a blur, it is its soul that matters, not its sharpness." -Bernard Plosseau

"You can write a picture in words, just as you can paint sensations in a poem." -Pablo Picasso

"Art is neither a science nor an experiment. There is no more progress in art than in flirting. I'm simply trying to be as free as possible in my way of working and in my choice of subject matter. No one gives me orders or guides me. One might criticize me afterwards, but then it's too late. The works has been done. I have tasted freedom." -Man Ray

"The eye is less efficient when the observer is carried passively, in a car or plane, than when information of movement is available through the limbs in contact with the earth." -Richard Gregory

"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes." -Kahlil Gibran

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Often while traveling with camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts." -Minor White

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." -Henry Thoreau

"Photography is more concerned with evoking than capturing. It's about timelessness rather than time stopped." -Bernard Plosseau

"Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them." -Leo Tolstoy

"Art is a substitute for violence. The same impulses that drive some persons to violence--the hunger for meaning, the need for ecstasy, the impulse to risk all--drive the artist to create. He is by nature our arch rebel." -Rollo May