"Art serves to rinse out our eyes." - Karl Kraus

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." - Jonathan Swift

"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes." - Goethe

"To point out the astonishing in the familiar." - Coleridge

"The habitual sight of things makes the mind accustomed to them; it feels no wonder and asks no questions about what is constantly before the eyes." - Cicero

"...that thrill which comes from finding beauty in the commonplace." - Edward Weston

"I go to the street for the education of my eye and for the sustenance that the eye needs - the hungry eye, and my eye is hungry." - Walker Evans

"I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, 'Why did I never realize before that that was beautiful too?'" - Andre Gide

"Photography is a way of telling what you feel about what you see." - Ansel Adams

"You make a painting at the same time that you take a photo." - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"I don't want my pictures to look like something. They should just look like pictures." - Keld Helmer-Petersen

"When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained." - Aaron Siskind

"Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived." - Wynn Bullock

"The question is not what you look at - but how you look and whether you see." - Henry David Thoreau

"All is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered." - Marcus Aurelius