Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies. - Errol Morris

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

War is such a peculiar thing — inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is a difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning — even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops

Quite often photographs gain power from what is omitted from the frame rather than from what is included.