"Photography is the first art wherein the..." - Quote by John Updike

“Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.”

“Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?”

“Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.”

“More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.”

“Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.”

“Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.”

“You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.”

“What matters in art is not thinking but making.”

“If you don't know what color to take, take black.”