心猶豫而狐疑兮，欲自適而不可 /離騷 屈原

 

路漫漫其修遠兮，吾將上下而求索/離騷 屈原

 

「與怪獸對抗的人，要小心自己也成為怪獸；當你凝視着深淵的時候，深淵也在凝視着你。」

 

'Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.'

 

-Edgar Allan Poe

  

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."

Poe--from "Berenice," 1835.

  

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

 

「當來自記憶的浪潮湧入，城市就像海綿一樣將它吸收，然後膨漲...」

 

-Italo Calvino

 

"A photograph is a subjective impression. It is what the photographer sees. No matter how hard we try to get into the skin, into the feeling of the subject or situation, however much we empathize, it is still what we see that comes out in the images, it is our reaction to the subject and in the end, the whole corpus of our work becomes a portrait of ourselves."

 

-Marilyn Silverstone

 

"Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are."

 

-David Hurn

 

"在靈魂真正黝暗的深夜，時時刻刻都是凌晨三點，日復一日。"

 

-F. S. K. Fitzgerald

  

「只有在孤獨的時候，我的存在是真實的：只有在孤獨的時候，我的行為是純粹的。」

 

-紀弦

  

攝影未必說某一事物已不存在，但必定說某一事物曾經存在。

 

詩言志

 

Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

 

-Ecclesiastes 11:4

 

憑藉藝術，我們得以呈現有尊嚴的哀愁。

 

艾倫‧狄波頓　

 

庾信平生最萧瑟，暮年诗赋动江关

 

杜甫