"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

""A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know." "
— Diane Arbus

"To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
— Susan Sontag (On Photography)

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
— Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers)

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
— Susan Sontag

"Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
— Susan Sontag

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."
— Marc Riboud

" "A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away." -E. Welty"
— E. Welty

"Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference"
— Robert Frank

"I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. "
— Lorrie Moore (Anagrams)

"It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down...."
— Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)

"What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. "
— William Albert Allard

"These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--position and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them"
— David Hurn

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
— Dorothea Lange

""Sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation."

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— X Files writer

""Have you ever seriously considered dying?"-Scully
"yes, once. At the Icecapades"-Mulder "
— X-Files

"Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask."
— X-Files