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“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”
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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.”
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“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”
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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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“Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.”
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“There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.”
Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com
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“People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.”
Source : "The RentBoy Raid: This Video Will Change The Way You Think About Sex Work" by Jake Jaxson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2015. 
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“With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.”
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“I will preach with my brush.”
Source : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”
