Ken Domon
[Photographer, b. 1909, Sakata, Japan, d. 1990, Tokyo.]
The absolutely pure snapshot, absolutely unstaged.
(Dictum) 
Lisette Model
[Photographer, b. 1906, Vienna, Austria, d. 1983, New York.]
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.
Martin Munkacsi
[Photographer, b. 1898, Kolozsvár, Hungary, (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania), d. 1963, New York.]
Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally... All great photographs today are snapshots.
(1935)
George Bernard Shaw
[Writer, critic, and dramatist, b. 1856, Dublin, d. 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England.]
I would willingly exchange every single painting of Christ for one snapshot.
Nan Goldin
[Photographer, b. 1953, Washington, D.C., lives in New York and Paris.]
[The snapshot is] the form of photography that is most defined by love. People take them out of love, and they take them to remember—people, places, and times. They’re about creating a history by recording a history.
John Baldessari
[Artist, b. 1931, National City, California, lives in Venice, California.]
I have no particular allegiance to photography, other than it’s quick.
Janet Malcolm
[Writer, b. 1934, Prague, Czechoslovakia, lives in New York.]
I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.
Lisette Model
[Photographer, b. 1906, Vienna, Austria, d. 1983, New York.]
The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.
