Larry Clark
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma, lives in New York.]
I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them. 
Robert Frank
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1924, Zürich, Switzerland, lives in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and New York.]
To produce an authentic contemporary document, the visual impact should be such as will nullify explanation. Lars Tunbjörk
[Photographer, b. 1956, Borås, Sweden, d. 2015, Stockholm.]
When I photograph now, I try to imagine that I’d never seen a place like this before. Edwin Parker “Cy” Twombly
[Artist, b. 1928, Lexington, Virginia, d. 2011, Rome.]
The Image cannotbe dis possessed of a
priMORdial
freshness
which IDEAS
CAN NEVER CLAIM
Chuck Close
[Artist, b. 1940, Monroe, Washington, lives in New York.]
From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840. Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else. Charles Sheeler
[Artist, b. 1883, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1965, Dobbs Ferry, New York.]
Isn’t it amazing how photography has advanced without improving? Bill Brandt
[Photographer, b. 1904, Hamburg, Germany, d. 1983, London.]
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried and dared... Photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it was achieved.