Steven Xue

“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“Rather than fearfully shutting down your sensitivity, dive in deeper into all possible feeling. As you expand, keep only those who are not afraid of oceans”
― Victoria Erickson

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
― Yousuf Karsh

“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections