Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
Josef Albers
[Artist, b. 1888, Bottrop, Germany, d. 1976, New Haven, Connecticut.]
[Photography] has all the advantages and disadvantages of childhood. It is still unafraid of spontaneity and directness.
(1943)
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
[Photographer, b. 1889, Brassó, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), d. 1984, Eze, Alpes-Maritimes, France.]
To shut oneself away in photography: what estrangement, what reclusion, what discipline!... [Photography] demands a purification without which no object lets us into its heart of hearts. Thus does one turn into a photosensitive coating.
Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
I never had any profound loyalty to the idea of photography as a medium but simply as the most efficient way of making or recording an image.
Lord Snowdon (Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones)
[Earl and photographer, b. 1930, London, England, d. 2017, London.]
If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.
Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.?
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it I felt very perverse.
Anders Petersen
[Photographer, b. 1944, Solna, Sweden, lives in Stockholm.]
There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures... You’re in the middle of life, you’re living, making love, eating, sleeping—and photography is part of it. And I don’t say this because I’m being romantic. I say this because that’s just the way it happens to be.
