"I am a copy of something, but I've forgotten what that something is."

--Oğuz Atay

"The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy."

--Ahmet Rasim

"Is there anyone so wretched, so forlorn as not to have some sort of garret in which to withdraw and hide from the world? For such is all that is required for travel."

--Xavier de Maistre

"Art is not fashionable."

--Duane Michaels

"The best part of us is not what we see, it's what we feel. We are what we feel. We are not what we look at . . .. We're not our eyeballs, we're our mind."

--Duane Michaels

"I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects."

--Josef Sudek

"And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs. "

--Duane Michaels

"Sensitivityis blunted; purity is tarnished; reactions are less vivid; one tolerates; one accepts..."

--André Gide