Clock

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock - Dave Allen

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it - Golda Meir

I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick' ... A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm - James Thurber

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning - Peter De Vries

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing - Peter M. Leschak

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge - W. Willard Wirtz, US Secretary of Labor

Photography

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasureable it my be - Edward Weston

View a negative experience in your life like you'd look at a photo negative. A single negative can create an unlimited number of positive prints - Gerhard Gschwandtner

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen - Minor White

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure - Tony Benn

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer, it is my task to reveal it if I can - Yousuf Karsh

Sculptor / Sculpture

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style peculiarly his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones - Henry David Thoreau

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work - Henry Moore

You do not make sculpture because you like wood. That is absurd. You make sculpture because the wood allows you to express something that another material does not allow you to - Louise Bourgeois

Sculpture, by its nature, is a thing. The sculptor is dealing with space itself, rather than the illusion of space - George Rickey