"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... It is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."
- Constantin Brancusi
"The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything."
- Shunryu Suzuki
"The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do, with great artists; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star."
- Marcel Proust
"We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually."
- Beaumont Newhall
"Seeing is perception with the original, unconditioned eye. It is a state of consciousness in which separation of photographer/ subject, audience/ image dissolves; in which a reality beyond words and concepts opens up, whose 'point' or 'meaning' is the direct experience itself."
- John D. Loori