André Breton
[Artist, writer, editor, and critic, b. 1896, Tinchebray, France, d. 1966, Paris, France.]
Radios? Fine. Syphilis? If you like. Photography? I don’t see any reason why not.
(Manifesto of Surrealism, 1924) 
Ludwig Wittgenstein
[Philosopher, b. 1889, Vienna, Austria, d. 1951, Cambridge, England.]
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images...
Lewis Hine
[Photographer, writer, and reformer, b. 1874, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, d. 1940, New York.]
Ever—the Human Document to keep the present and future in touch with the past.
(His pledge as a photographer.)
Lola Alvarez Bravo
[Photographer, b. 1907, Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, d. 1993, Mexico City.]
If my photos have any value, it’s because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.
Ernst Haas
[Photographer, b. 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. 1986, New York City.]
I am not interested in shooting new things. I am interested to see things new. In this way I am a photographer with the problems of a painter, the desire is to find the limitations of a camera so I can overcome them.
Jeff Wall
[Photographer, b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada, lives in Vancouver.]
I like photographs that don’t look altogether the way photographs are supposed to look. We don’t really know how photographs are “supposed to look.”
Jerry Uelsmann
[Photographer, b. 1934, Detroit, Michigan, lives in Gainesville, Florida.]
The serious photographer today should constantly be seeking new ways of commenting on a world that is newly understood. Constant creativity and innovation are essential to combat visual mediocrity.
A.D. Coleman
[Critic and writer, b. 1943, New York, lives in New York.]
The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.
