Michael Strode

“As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.”
― Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
― Ansel Adams

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
― Constantin Stanislavski, My Life In Art