"In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way." — W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist, born 1918
"I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!" — W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist, born 1918
"A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world." — Robert Smithson, American sculptor, born 1938
"It doesn't matter where you came from. What matters is who you choose to be." — The Smurfs, Fictional blue dwarves, October 1958
"In darkness and in hedges, I sang my sour tone, and all my love was howling conspicuously alone." — W. D. Snodgrass, American poet, born 1926
"I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel." — Lord Snowdon, English photographer, born 1930
"I’m very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up fish and chucked away." — Lord Snowdon, English photographer, born 1930
"What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world." — Zach Sobiech, American singer, born 1995
"For a person who has spirit, everything he sees becomes a flower, and everything he imagines turns into the moon." — Iio Sogi, Japanese poet, born 1421
"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others." — Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor, born 1912
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, born 1918
"If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his heart?" — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, born 1918