Quotes by Curators

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
Martin Friedman
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Berger
This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of high-quality original prints in the Conde Nast archives prove, only Irving Penn and Richard Avedon have since emerged as serious historical rivals.
William A. Ewing
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath, and the picture is admired beyond measure. The photographer finds the same pretty girl, he dresses her up and photographs her, and calls her Juliet, but somehow it is no good – it is still Miss Wilkins, the model. It is too true to be Juliet.George Bernard ShawWilson’s Photographic Magazine, LVI, 1909
John Szarkowski
ThatNeed to knowYour enemyTo surviveIs bitter.
Maud Sulter
Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like without it. Writing as I would define it serves to record language by means of an agreed set of symbols that enable a message to be played back like a wax cylinder recording. The reader's eye runs over the signs and tells the brain how each is pronounced and the inner message springs into life.
Irving Finkel
Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude.
Rita Gonzalez
Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.
Rita Gonzalez
... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.
Ingrid Schaffner
War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.
Mary Horlock