D. A. Pennebaker
[Documentary Filmmaker, b. 1925, Evanston, Illinois, lives in Sag Harbor, New York.]
You can’t point a camera at someone and find out what’s in their head. But it does the next best thing—it lets you speculate. 
Octavio Paz
[Poet and writer, b. 1914, Mexico City, d. 1998, Mexico City.]
Photos:time dangling from a verbal thread
Black mountain
white cloud,
Girl selling birds
Max Pam
[Photographer, b. 1949, Melbourne, Australia, lives in Perth, Australia.]
[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life—that photography could deliver you that life. Sean Penn
[Actor, b. 1960, Burbank, California, lives in Los Angeles.]
I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it’s a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I’d still like to poke them with a stick. Sylvia Plath
[Poet, b. 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, d. 1963, London.]
It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac,A palace of velvet
With windows of mirrors.
There one is safe,
There are no family photographs,
No rings through the nose, no cries.
Gordon Parks
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1912, Fort Scott, Kansas, d. 2006, New York.]
If you don’t have anything to say, your photographs are not going to say much. Tim Page
[Photographer, b. 1944, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, lives in Brisbane, Australia.]
Every good war picture becomes an anti-war picture. Marcel Proust
[Writer, b. 1871, Auteuil, Paris, d. 1922, Paris.]
Photography is the product of complete alienation.