A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.