| "Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul." W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm." Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." John Ruskin |
| "We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs." Aaron Siskind |
| "I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness." Joan Miro |
| "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown." Soren Kierkegaard |
| "Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed." Howard Nemerov |
| "Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life." George Arliss |
| "Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection." Alban Berg |
| "Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late." Benjamin Franklin |
| "Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." Leonardo da Vinci |
| "All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true." T.E. Lawrence, a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia. |
| "A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it." O. Henry |
| "There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." Ansel Adams |
| "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world." Archimedes, 230 BC. |
| "Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow." Philip James Bailey |
| "From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape." Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). |
| "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller |
| "I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence." Man Ray |
| "Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings." Kathy Bates |
| "To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body—both go together, they can’t be separated." Jean-Luc Godard |
| "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." Malcolm Forbes |
| "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them." Henry David Thoreau |
| "A day without laughter is a day wasted." Charlie Chaplin |
| "Film spectators are quiet vampires." Jim Morrison |
| "The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets." Plato |
| "Film and video do more for creating an understanding of what South Africa is about than does tourism." Dumisani Phakathi, independent filmmaker. |
| "The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking." Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun. |
| "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London (1876 - 1916) |
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