"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."
— Marc Riboud

"Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed through weather and the sea,
and the moon swam back,
its rays all silvered,
and time and again the darkness would be broken
by the crash of a wave,
and every day on the balcony of the sea,
wings open, fire is born,
and everything is blue again like morning. "
— Pablo Neruda

"Friends don't let you do stupid things...
alone."
— a picture I found

""A picture is worth a thousand words.""
— Fred R. Barnard

"The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest of their lives. These aesthetic impressions, just like the moral teachings of early childhood, remain indelible."
— Esphyr Slobodkina

"and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?""
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: &, Through the Looking Glass)

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)