I love the medium of photography, for with its unique…

Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have…

— Georges Bataille

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

— Paul Fussell

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see…

— Anthony James Leggett

Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of…

— Alan Barth

His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone.…

— Gunther Schuller

There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still…

— Alex Stapleton

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

— Henry Ford

People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the…

— William Kentridge

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for…

— David Travis

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

— Janet Malcolm

I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because…

— Berenice Abbott

It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during…

— Ralph Gibson

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

— Andres Serrano

I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it.…

— Ralph Gibson