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I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

— Annie Leibovitz

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

— W. G. Sebald

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

— Julian Schnabel

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

— Elliott Erwitt

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which…

— Bob Colacello

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures…

— Fay Godwin

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei