It's easier to get a photograph of the Pope in the shower than a picture of her.

-Anonymous
  On Hillary Rodham Clinton's low profile in the period between her husband's election and inauguration. In Newsweek, 25  Jan.

(The photograph was taken the day after I drowned. I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.)

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  The Circle Game,'This is a Photograph of Me'.

My life was a strange one that summer, the last summer of its kind there was ever to be. I was riding high on sex and self-esteemöit was my time, my belle e¤  poqueö but allthewhilewith a faintflickerofcalamity, likeflames around a photograph, something seen out of the corner of the eye.

-Hollinghurst, Alan
  The Swimming Pool Library, ch.1.

I said,'Forgive me, sir,'and plucked the cigar out of his mouth. By the time I got back to my camera, he looked so belligerent he could have devoured me. It was at that instant that I took the photograph. The silence was deafening.

-Karsh,Yousuf
  Recalling how he snapped the celebrated 'bulldog' photograph of Sir Winston Churchill in the Speaker's Chambers, House of Commons, Ottawa, on 30 Dec1941. Karsh:  A Fifty-Year Retrospective.

Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirsö or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife† Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!

-Rodchenko, Alexander
Quoted in Robert HughesThe Shock of the New (1980).

When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hung it in the men-servants' lavatory; it was her one combative action.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Vile Bodies, ch.3.