Lee Miller
[Photographer and model, b. 1907, Poughkeepsie, New York, d. 1976, Sussex, England.]
No question that German civilians knew what went on. Railway into Dachau camp runs past villa, with trains of dead or semi-dead deportees. I usually don’t take pictures of horrors. But don’t think that every town and every area isn’t rich with them. I hope Vogue will feel it can publish these pictures.
(Cable from German front, May, 1945) 
Paul Virilio
[Writer and theorist, b. 1932, Paris, lives in La Rochelle, France.]
Images contaminate us like viruses.
Charles Baudelaire
[Writer, b. 1821, Paris, d. 1867, Paris.]
In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... “I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature...” An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.
Robert Rauschenberg
[Artist, b. 1925, Port Arthur, Texas, d. 2008, Captiva Island, Florida.]
Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.
