We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

                                                                 Anais Nin

                                                                 The Seduction of the Minotaur, cited as talmudic

Créer, c'est vivre deux fois.  (To create, is to live twice.)

                                                                  Albert Camus

                                                                  The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Our junk has become art. Our junk has become history.

                                                                  Susan Sontag

​                                                                  On Photography

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

                                                                   Dorothea Lange

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
                                                                   Ansel Adams

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
                                                                Susan Meiselas

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.  It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.

                                                                Anne Lamott

                                                                Bird by Bird