Jean François Millet
[Artist, b. 1814, Gruchy, France, d. 1875, Barbizon, France.]
A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue. 
Robert Adams
[Photographer and writer, b. 1937, Orange, New Jersey, lives in Astoria, Oregon.]
Photography and poetry both center on metaphor. Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
The camera is like a typewriter, in the sense in which you can use the machine to write a love letter, a book, or a business memo. Vladimir Nabokov
[Writer, b. 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 1977, Montreux, Switzerland.]
All colors made me happy: even gray.My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs.
Robert Polidori
[Photographer, b. 1951, Montréal, Canada, lives in New York.]
Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher. Raghubir Singh
[Photographer, b. 1942, Jaipur, Punjab, India, d. 1999, New York.]
Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously. Walker Evans
[Photographer, b. 1903, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1975, New Haven, Connecticut.]
I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground. Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
The camera doesn’t rape, or even possess, though it may presume, intrude, trespass, distort, exploit, and, at the farthest reach of metaphor, assassinate—all activities that, unlike the sexual push and shove, can be conducted from a distance, and with some detachment.