"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." - Ansel Adams
"He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." - Francis of Assisi
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit." - Ansel Adams
"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all." - James A Baldwin
"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not." - John Keats
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him." - John F Kennedy
"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives." - Jim Morrison
"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved." - Ansel Adams
"I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day." - Woody Allen
"I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you?re forfeiting your humanity." - Woody Allen
"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art." - Thomas Aquinas
"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." - Honore de Balzac
"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." - Honore de Balzac
"It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money." - Dave Barry
