“A thing is not ….”

“A thing is not what you say it is or what you pho­to­graph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, pho­tographs, paint­ings, and sculp­tures are sym­bols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.”

– Wynn Bul­lock