Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works (ed. Courier Corporation, 1978) - ISBN: 9780486236858