“The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages.”— Claude Shannon
“I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.”— Harry Callahan
“It is a subjective sport and the selection criteria is subjective so I guess this is what you get.”— Russell Mark
“We've always chosen our material on the basis of whether it was something we felt strongly about.”— Irving Ravetch
“It is for the artist to pick and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful.”— James Abbott McNeill Whistler