Hold fast Quote by Gyorgy Kepes

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

— Blaise Pascal

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard…

— Bill Brandt

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see

— Leonard Nimoy

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

— Seneca the Younger

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

— Karl Marx

“Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed…

— Adam Smith

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

— Edward Steichen

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

— David Byrne

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

— Plato

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain…

— Harry Callahan