"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
— Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers)

"Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
— Susan Sontag

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Conduct of Life)