“With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!”

“I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.”

“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”

“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”