Believe Quote by Tod Papageorge

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

— John Mason Brown

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks…

— Aberjhani

My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the…

— Kadir Nelson

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies…

— Christian Metz

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

— Eikoh Hosoe

In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so…

— El Lissitzky

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which…

— August Sander