“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.

"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

"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

"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

"The Third World woman revolts: we revoke, we erase your white male imprint. When you come knocking on our doors with your rubber stamps to brand our faces with DUMB, HYSTERICAL, PASSIVE PUTA, PERVERT[...], we will vomit the guilt, self-denial and race-hatred you have force-fed into us right back into your mouth."
—Gloria Anzaldúa

"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

“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

‘‘The panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheral ring, one is totally seen without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.’’
—‘Discipline and Punish’, Michel Foucault

‘‘But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress’’
— Walter Benjamin