"We photographers don't really make anything: we peck at the world and try to find something curious or wild or beautiful that might fit into what the medium of photography can hold." -Lee Friedlander

"Go see the Grand Canyon, the Canyon De Chelly, Yosemite, The Green River. The photos of these places are a hint, just a blink at the real world. At most, an aphrodisiac." Lee Friedlander

"I can't fly but I can make experiments" - William Eggleston

"A small catalog appears in the mind's eye: a city at night, a large parking lot, a highway, a man who owns three cars, and the man who owns none..." Robert Frank

"Time went on...At a very early age I could play the piano. Anything, practically. After hearing it once. Not reading music, then...And maybe never play the same one twice. Very much like the way I work optically today." - William Eggleston