Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)