Mel Bochner
[Artist, b. 1940, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) 
Minor White
[Photographer, writer, and theorist, b. 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, d. 1976, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
One should photograph objects, not only for what they are but for what else they are. Martin Parr
[Photographer, b. 1952, Epson, Surrey, England, lives in Bristol and London, England.]
Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That’s the great thing about photography. Bill Eppridge
[Photographer, b. 1938, Buenos Aires, d. 2013, Danbury, Connecticut.]
You are not just a photojournalist, you’re a historian. Lee Friedlander
[Photographer, b. 1934, Aberdeen, Washington, lives in New York.]
The world makes up my pictures, not me. Octavio Paz
[Poet and writer, b. 1914, Mexico City, d. 1998, Mexico City.]
Photos:time dangling from a verbal thread
Black mountain
white cloud,
Girl selling birds
Lev Manovich
[Artist, theorist, and critic, b. 1960, Moscow, lives in New York.]
We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other “digital traces” of our existence. Catherine Opie
[Photographer, b. 1961, Sandusky, Ohio, lives in Los Angeles.]
I’m glad there is a queer, out, dyke artist that’s being called an American photographer.