You have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told.
​– Thomas King

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
– Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.
​– Becky Chambers

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.
​– Sam Abell

Just because we are the crest of the wave does not mean the ocean does not exist. What has been before will be again.
​– Tanya Tagaq

Be yourself so that the people looking for you can find you.
​– Arlan Hamilton

What do I want to talk about? A camera is just an expensive pencil. What do I want to say, and how am I going to say it?
– Cig Harvey

When originality becomes a goal, it is no longer original. The artist is merely trying to be different. The word ‘original’ comes from origin, the source. Different just means something that is set apart from everything else.
​– John Daido Loori

Oh John, you have such lovely children! Why don't you photograph them instead of these silly rocks?
​– John Daido Loori’s mother

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
​– Georgia O'Keeffe