Robert Rauschenberg
[Artist, b. 1925, Port Arthur, Texas, d. 2008, Captiva Island, Florida.]
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts. 
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Jean Baudrillard
[Writer and theorist, b. 1929, Reims, France, d. 2007, Paris.]
Art can only ally itself with general insignificance and indifference. It no longer has any privileges. It has no final destination other than the fluid universe of communication, networks and interaction. James Joyce
[Writer, b. 1882, Rathgar, Ireland, d. 1941, Zurich, Switzerland.]
...I could pose for a picture naked to some rich fellow in Holles street when he lost the job in Helys and I was selling the clothes and strumming in the coffee palace would I be like that bath of the nymph with my hair down yes only shes younger or Im a little like that dirty bitch in that Spanish photo he has nymphs used they go about like that I asked him about her and that word met something with hoses in it... Roberto Rossellini
[Director and writer, b. 1906, Rome, d. 1977, Rome.]
I am looking for a simple image, in order to be able to show without telling. Elliott Erwitt
[Photographer, b. 1928, Paris, France, lives in New York.]
Dogs are instinctive, they have a memory of the instant, like photography. E.E. Cummings
[Poet and author, b. 1894, Cambridge, Massachusetts, d. 1962, North Conway, New Hampshire.]
…i keptremembering how your mind looked when it slept
for several years, to wake up asking why.
So then you turned into a photograph
of somebody who’s trying not to laugh
at somebody who’s trying not to cry
Todd Walker
[Photographer, b. 1917, Salt Lake City, Utah, d. 1998, Tucson, Arizona.]
Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.