Janet Malcolm
[Writer, b. 1934, Prague, Czechoslovakia, lives in New York.]
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.
René Burri
[Photographer, b. 1933, Zurich, Switzerland, d. 2014, Zurich.]
A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.
Edwin Land
[Inventor and entrepreneur, b. 1909, Bridgeport, Connecticut, d. 1991, Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Ruth Bernhard
[Photographer, b. 1905, Berlin, d. 2006, San Francisco.]
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.
Sally Mann
[Photographer, b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia, lives in Lexington.]
Stop trying to get it right. Just take the picture.
Frank Horvat
[Photographer, b. 1928, Abbazia, Italy, now Opatija, Croatia, lives in Paris.]
Photography is the art of not pushing the button.
Jeff Wall
[Photographer, b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada, lives in Vancouver.]
I begin by not photographing.
God (Judeo-Christian Version)
[Omnipotent artist, critic, creator and destroyer, before time, lives everywhere and nowhere.]
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or likeness of any thing that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them; nor serve them...
(Judeo-Christian version of God; Exodus 20:4)
