“Contrary to appearances, the framing matters not just because of what it contains and what is seen but also for what is not seen. What is excluded is important: what is inside is meaningless without what is outside. […] Ultimately, the subject of photography is not space but time.”
―Wassermann. Practical Notes on Photography. Prague, n.d.

"His drawings have the mark of errant wandering, of pilgrimage, which took Helios to Europe and into contact with revolutionary circles. The figure of the rogue, a prototype of Spanish society of yesteryear, is now that of an objector, someone in opposition to that very society."
―Jean Cassou

"Cinema seems more powerful than older artistic media, and the reason for this is that cinema seems to have as a birthright the same rights as the spirit: it moves in time and works in a way that is analogous to the conscience, whose flow it is able to replace."
―Boris Groys

"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