Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
I feel that you’re either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium.
Hugh Hefner
[Publisher and playboy, b. 1926, Chicago, d. 2017, Los Angeles.]
I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex. The centerfold itself, the girl-next-door-centerfold, in a very simplistic way was rooted in that philosophy, that that sex is okay, it’s a natural part of life, a very radical idea in America...
André Breton
[Artist, writer, editor, and critic, b. 1896, Tinchebray, France, d. 1966, Paris, France.]
It is through the power of images that, in time,
real revolutions may well be brought about.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
[Photographer, b. 1882, Boston, Massachusetts, d. 1966, Wales.]
Why should not the camera throw off the shackles of conventional representation?
(1916)
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
A photograph is to a painting what an automobile is to a horse. A rider on his horse is a beautiful thing, but I prefer a man in an airplane.
William Burroughs
[Writer, b. 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, d. 1997, Lawrence, Kansas.]
Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine —
John Gossage
[Photographer, b. 1946, Staten Island, New York, lives in Washington D.C..]
You can do anything you like, it’s all fiction.
Paul Strand
[Photographer, b. 1890, New York, d. 1976, Oregeval, France.]
I’ve always felt you can do anything you want in photography, if you can get away with it.
