#graph

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

Reality holds no reverence for romance, and no remorse for the weak. Those who enter hell need know why they are there. ↗

— Doug Barber

#harley-davidson #motorcycle #people #photography #photography

I don't trust words. I trust pictures. ↗

— Gilles Peress

#photography

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. ↗

— Elliot Erwitt

#photography #photography

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice. ↗

— Don Chadwick

#focus #photography #seeing #vision #photography

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#landscapes #photography #photography

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#secrets #photography

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. ↗

— Robert Frank

#photography

Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#photography