Edwin Land
[Inventor and entrepreneur, b. 1909, Bridgeport, Connecticut, d. 1991, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
If you are not satisfied with a picture, this new process allows you to retake the picture immediately and correct the fault. You know that you have a perfect picture on the spot. You need never be disappointed again.
(1947) 
Barbara DeGenevieve
[Photographer, artist, and curator, b. 1947, d. 2014, Chicago, Illinois.]
You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing...
William Klein
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, lives in Paris.]
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.
Charles Traub
[Photographer, writer, and critic, b. 1945, Louisville, Kentucky, lives in New York.]
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.
Douglas McCulloh
[Photographer, b. 1959, Los Angeles, lives in Los Angeles.]
Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.
Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
I use the legitimate controls of the medium only to augment the photographic effect... As long as the final result of the procedure is photographic, it is entirely justified.
Jerome Liebling
[Photographer, b. 1924, New York, d. 2011, Northampton, Massachusetts.]
These days it seems that physical “truth” can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all the warts can be removed. But returning to the source of a thing—the real source—means the photographer has to watch, dig, listen for voices, sniff the smells, and have many doubts. My life in photography has been lived as a skeptic.
Elizabeth Bowen
[Writer, b. 1899, Dublin, Ireland, d. 1973, London.]
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
