“Photographs… are the most curious indicators of reality.”

“The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.”

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist

“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) French photographer

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality… One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“For what the most neglects, most curious prove,
So Beauty's helped by Nature, Heaven, and Love.”

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet