I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.