“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

— Anaïs Nin

“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can achieve excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

“You don’t always get what you go after, but you do get what you wouldn’t have got if you hadn’t gone after what you didn’t get.”

— Blaze Foley

“People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a ‘common purpose’. ‘Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they’re going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you’re really looking.”

— George Carlin

“The only advice I have is that you do something connected to photography every day of your life and you’ll be surprised what happens.”

— Richard Avedon