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“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”
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“As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean.”
Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.”
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“I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.”
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“Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.”
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“Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.”
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“I am an expert witness because I say I am.”
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“It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.”
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“A writer's work is to witness things.”
Source : Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield
