Lemon to lemonade

Photography is like a lemon, sour to some, but lemonade to others. - Anonymous

Let your words be few

Let your words be few, and your exposures many. - Anonymous

Life is like

Life is like photography. You use the negatives to develop. - Anonymous

Of what use are lens and light

Of what use are lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight? - Anonymous

Photography and Portraiture

Photographic portraiture is the best feature of the fine arts for the million that the ingenuity of man has yet devised. It has in this sense swept away many of the illiberal distinctions of rank and wealth, so that the poor man who possesses but a few schillings can command as perfect a lifelike portrait of his wife or child as Sir Thomas Lawrence painted for the most distinguished sovereigns of Europe. - Anonymous

Two negatives make an affirmative

Logicians tell us that two Negatives make an Affirmative. Will somebody say how many Negatives make a Photographer ? - Anonymous

You cannot possess someone forever

There's no way you can possess someone forever. Even in a photograph. There's no way. - Anonymous.