You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts the photographers picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor – no matter what you do, and how you twist it. – Robert Frank
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. – Caspar David Friedrich
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. – Henry Ward Beecher