I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last…

“He nodded and dabbed at his forehead with his sleeve. “And every mistake. But every good thing we do as well. They are immortal,…

— Hugh Howey

“When a patient comes in with a fatal head bleed, that first conversation with a neurosurgeon may forever color how the family remembers the…

— Paul Kalanithi

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

— Dawoud Bey

My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal…

— Jerome Liebling

“Maybe if she saw Jag again... maybe that would wake her up. But if she sees him and remembers, I'm nobody. In more than…

— Elana Johnson

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

— Eddie Adams

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness…

— W. Eugene Smith

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person…

— Eddie Adams

Death is an inevitable cycle. But sickness before death is a symptom of resistance. Most people think they've got to get sick to die.…

— Esther Hicks

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child…

— Alan Dershowitz

I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do…

— Janet Frame

A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not…

— Rajneesh

The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are holy. Life…

— Penn Jillette

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

— Steve Jobs