David Hockney
[Artist, b. 1937, Bradford, England, lives in Bridlington, Yorkshire; London; and Los Angeles.]
It’s time to debate images, especially when someone’s going to prison for downloading them. 
James Agee
[Writer, b. 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee, d. 1955, New York.]
It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught. Vladimir Nabokov
[Writer, b. 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 1977, Montreux, Switzerland.]
And by the striped mandirected at the sunny sand
blinked with a click of its black eyelid
the camera’s ocellus.
That bit of film imprinted
all it could catch,
the stirless child,
his radiant mother,
and a toy pail and two beach spades,
and some way off a bank of sand,
and I, the accidental spy,
I in the background have also been taken.
Next winter, in an unknown house,
grandmother will be shown an album,
and in that album there will be a snapshot,
and in that snapshot I shall be.
My likeness among strangers,
one of my August days,
my shade they never noticed,
my shade they stole in vain.
(1927)
Tacita Dean
[Artist, b. 1960, Canterbury, England, lives in Berlin.]
I do not want to give these images explanations—descriptions by the finder about how and where they were found, or guesses as to what stories they might or might not tell I want them to keep the silence of the fleamarket; the silence they had when I found them; the silence of the lost object. (On her found photographs of “Floh.”) Maggie Steber
[Photographer, b. 1949, born in Electra, Texas, lives in Miami, Florida.]
Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them—the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts—and then we send them out into the world. At some moment, perhaps the moment we click the shutter, they are being released. From that moment on, they don’t really belong to us anymore. Robert Rauschenberg
[Artist, b. 1925, Port Arthur, Texas, d. 2008, Captiva Island, Florida.]
My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in... Lev Manovich
[Artist, theorist, and critic, b. 1960, Moscow, lives in New York.]
Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one. Walker Evans
[Photographer, b. 1903, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1975, New Haven, Connecticut.]
The photographer, the artist, “takes” a picture: symbolically he lifts an object or that composition... [He] has rendered his object in some way transcendent and... in each instance his vision has penetrating validity.