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"A photograph is not an opinion. Or is it?" - Susan Sontag, On Photography

“Color sings to me. Color is such a marvelous way of expressing emotion. We have so many problems in this world; color just brings a little bit of joy into our lives.” - Vera Neumann

“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you.” - William Gladstone, British Prime Minister

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." - Eudora Welty

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"That was her self when some effort, some call on her to be her self, drew the parts together, she alone knew how different, how incompatible and composed so for the world only into one centre, one diamond..." - from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

“Life is not easy for any of us. but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie

"The irony mark or irony point (؟) (French: point d’ironie; also called a snark or zing) is a proposed punctuation mark that was suggested to be used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (e.g. irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is illustrated by a small, elevated, backward-facing question mark. The irony mark has never been used widely. It appears occasionally in obscure artistic or literary publications."

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The street is a field with endless possibilities, where surprises always hide behind the next corner. When I walk with my camera in my hands, the street life transforms into a theatrical act, a play that is taking place for me only. Regardless of the name of the city, the time of the year or the day, streets are like living creatures, beating hearts, with their very own character. I just have to listen carefully to all these stories taking place in front of my eyes and my lens, justify the shapes, the colors and the forms. And the best part of it is that this play never ends." -- Lukas Vasilikos

"Both paintings and books are vessels for ideas, experience and memory. The books we read and the paintings we love and choose to live with, define us. A book requires the reader to assemble images and ideas out of its signs and symbols. Likewise, a painting asks that you translate its strokes and drips into reason and emotion." - Stanford Kay