"Creativity begins with amazement and concern. The cry that is not an evocative song, first empathy, then sympathy, then hatred for the circumstances that cause pain, and a vision and a desire for those conditions not to exist. The artist is involved, then committed, and finally devoted."
—Maya Deren

"Drunks beggars prostitutes
quitters quitted
outcasts outlaws
almost always dissidents.

It was agreed to call them
'mad'.
This label
prevents us from recognising
in ourselves
the Other."
―Horácio Costa

"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good."
—Wallace Stevens

"In all dealings between a privileged man and a commoner, is it not certain that the latter has no redress against oppression, since if he is bold enough to take legal action he has to appeal to members of the privileged classes? They alone dispose of authority and is not their first reaction to regard the commoner’s law-suit as insubordination?"
―Emmanuel-Joseph Sièyes

“I’m going to begin with the most emphatic remark. The most shocking. Photography is nothing more than a means of reproduction. Period.”
—Josep Maria Casademont

"Holding a camera in front of the face or against the chest, framing the image in the viewfinder, pressing the shutter release, are forms of encounter with the self as much as with the world; just like, in another way, the choices of developing―or having a photo developed―of looking at it, commenting on it, or on the contrary hiding or even destroying it."
―Serge Tisseron