Ezra Pound
[Poet, b. 1885, Hailey, Idaho, d. 1972, Venice, Italy.]
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. 
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. Rondal Partridge
[Photographer, b. 1917, San Francisco, d. 2015, Berkeley, California.]
Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view. Gilles Peress
[Photographer, b. 1946, Neuilly, France, lives in New York.]
I am bad at memory—this is why I shoot pictures. Gordon Parks
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1912, Fort Scott, Kansas, d. 2006, New York.]
Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly. 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
Norman Parkinson
[Photographer, b. 1913, London, d. 1990, Singapore.]
The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph is the camera. Paolo Pellegrin
[Photographer, b. 1964, Rome, lives in Paris.]
You want to be more vulnerable because that’s how your photography becomes more human. In a sense you want to become a totally blank canvas so the subject or situation reflects him or itself upon you.