Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man's face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building— and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It's the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me— I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,— he said.—Nothing about religion is simple.

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.

We should totally rely on God, then our success will always be stable and nothing would be able to shake it

All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully

If nothing works faster than Anadin, take nothing.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

God created the world out of nothing. But the nothingness still shows through.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.