D.H. Lawrence
[Writer, b. 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, d. 1930, Vence, France.]
As vision developed towards the Kodak, man’s idea of himself developed towards the snapshot. Primitive man simply didn’t know
what he was: he was always half in the dark. But we have learned to see, and each of us has a complete Kodak idea of himself.
(1925) 
Eve Arnold
[Photographer, b. 1913, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 2011, London.]
I didn’t want to be a “woman photographer.” That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.
Daido Moriyama
[Photographer, b. 1938, Ikeda-cho, Osaka, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
I use the camera as a procedure by which continually to affirm my identity, asking myself: “What is the meaning of life in a world and among human beings as grotesque, scandalous, and accidental as the one in which I live and those with whom I interact?”
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
Paolo Pellegrin
[Photographer, b. 1964, Rome, lives in Paris.]
I believe photography – like many other things one does in life – is the exact expression of who you are at a given moment.
Eleanor Antin
[Artist, b. 1935, New York, lives in San Diego, California.]
Why should I be limited by my own biography?
Robert Frank
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1924, Zürich, Switzerland, lives in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and New York.]
I guess I got where I wanted to get, but it didn’t turn out to be the place I hoped it would be. I’m an outsider, still.
Joan Didion
[Writer, b. 1934, Sacramento, California, lives in New York.]
For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.”
