William Mortensen
[Photographer and writer, b. 1897, Park City, Utah, d. 1965, Laguna Beach, California.]
Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of
expression. 
E. L. Doctorow
[Writer, b. 1931, New York, lives in New York.]
Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual’s calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.
Philip Jones Griffiths
[Photojournalist, b. 1936, Rhuddian, Wales, d. 2008, London.]
I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter.
Donald McCullin
[Photographer, b. 1935, Finsbury Park, London, lives in Somerset, England.]
Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
Paolo Roversi
[Photographer, b. 1947, Ravenna, Italy, lives in Paris.]
There’s no logic in the realm of the imagination. It’s more about feelings, emotion and love. You can’t explain why you fell in love with someone because some emotions cannot be [described properly]. It’s the same for me with photography.
Vincent Van Gogh
[Artist, b. 1853, Zundert, Netherlands, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France.]
A feeling for things in themselves is much more important than a sense of the pictorial.
(An aphorism adopted by photographer Edward Weston.)
Marcel Duchamp
[Artist, b. 1887, Blainville, France, d. 1968, Neilly-sur-Seine, France.]
Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
Walker Evans
[Photographer, b. 1903, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1975, New Haven, Connecticut.]
Deft, witty, spanking little poems of hate.
(Describing photographs by Lee Friedlander)
