W. Eugene Smith
[Photographer, b. 1918, Wichita, Kansas, d. 1978, Tucson, Arizona.]
I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them? 
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
Since I’d opened a studio where I began to practice the debatable art of photography—in order to survive, I told myself—I was invaded by all kinds of people who came to see me as though I were a doctor, in the hope that I’d heal them… David Foster Wallace
[Writer, b. 1962, Ithica, New York, d. 2008, Claremont, California.]
You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage. William Eggleston
[Photographer, b. 1939, Memphis, Tennessee, lives in Memphis.]
We have a few things in common—smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller) Edwin Parker “Cy” Twombly
[Artist, b. 1928, Lexington, Virginia, d. 2011, Rome.]
The Image cannotbe dis possessed of a
priMORdial
freshness
which IDEAS
CAN NEVER CLAIM
Bill Jay
[Photographer, writer, and curator, b. 1940, Maidenhead, England, d. 2009, Samara, Costa Rica.]
I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to… Sigmar Polke
[Painter and photographer, b. 1941, Oels, Silesia, Germany (Now Poland), d. 2010, Cologne, Germany.]
A negative is never finished. Sally Mann
[Photographer, b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia, lives in Lexington.]
Seldom, but memorably, there are times when my vision, even my hand, seems guided by, well, let’s say a muse.