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“Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”

Man Ray

“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”

Edward Steichen

“To me, pictures are like blintzes – ya gotta get ‘em while they’re hot. ”

Weegee (Arthur Fellig) , Weegee’s New York by Harvey V. Fondiller

“Photography has generally been defended on the ground that it is useful. It should be added however that some of the very best photography is useful only as juggling, theology, or pure mathematics is useful - that is to say, useless, except as nourishment for the human spirit.”

John Szarkowski, former Curator of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, from Looking at Photographs, 1973, MOMA