Ilse Bing
[Photographer, b. 1899, Frankfurt, Germany, d. 1998, New York.]
When I was a little girl, children were looked upon as, “not yet”—something not yet perfect. I resented this approach toward me. But I was no fighter, and I retreated into my own world. This world was so colorful and so rich that I wanted never to become a grown-up. 
Ray Metzker
[Photographer, b. 1931, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, d. 2014, Philadelphia.]
A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize. Lewis Baltz
[Photographer, b. 1945, Newport Beach, California, d. 2014, Paris.]
I never did [understand L.A.], really: I always believed that God would destroy L.A. for its sins. Finally I realized that He had already destroyed it, and then left it around as a warning. Raoul Hausmann
[Artist, b. 1886, Vienna, d. 1971, Limoges, France.]
[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience. Sylvia Plath
[Poet, b. 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, d. 1963, London.]
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.“Oh, sure you know,” the photographer said.
“She wants,” said Jay Cee wittily, “to be everything.”
William Gibson
[Writer, b. 1948, Conway, South Carolina, lives in Vancouver, Canada.]
Case turned his head and looked up into Wage’s face. It was a tanned and forgettable mask. The eyes were vatgrown sea-green Nikon transplants. Wage wore a suit of gunmetal silk and a simple bracelet of platinum on either wrist.
(1984) Charlotte Cotton
[Curator and author, b. 1981, Cotswolds, England, lives in London.]
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers. Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
One cannot be thinking about the page layout while one is actually shooting a story.