Two from James Elkins:
"Ultimately, seeing alters the thing that is seen, and transforms the seer. Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism."
"We want to be pictures, not just to be in them, so when I look at a picture I am also looking at myself, at a way that I might be."
One from D.H. Lawrence:
"Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change."
