“I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)” IfsMenBelieveWellsCan DoLinesKnowingPhotographyPhotographSquaresInchesBelieve In MeSculptureAcid Author:John Ruskin
“I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.” ThinkingProblemTodayKnowingPhotographyAdvantagePhotographerNot Knowing Author:Robert Mapplethorpe
“Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.” ThinkingSaidInterestingKnowingWords Of WisdomPhotographyPhotographer Author:Bill Jay