Idris Khan
[Artist, b. 1978, Birmingham, England, lives in London.]
...don’t be put off by someone telling you that your image looks too digital; maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to look. 
Anders Petersen
[Photographer, b. 1944, Solna, Sweden, lives in Stockholm.]
(Be wary of:nicely formulated principles and truths.
useless feelings of guilt and sins of the past
or while we’re at it
a
photograph resembling pretty adjectives
on the other hand, I like private
diaries and family albums
Imogen Cunningham
[Photographer, b. 1883, Portland, d. 1976, San Francisco.]
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet. Douglas McCulloh
[Photographer, b. 1959, Los Angeles, lives in Los Angeles.]
A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa. Christian Boltanski
[Artist, b. 1944, Paris, lives in Paris.]
I don’t want viewers to discover; I want them to recognize. Duane Michals
[Photographer, b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, lives in New York.]
Don’t try to be an artist: try to be true. If your vision is honest, art will find you. 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.