"This one goes to eleven."

Yes, it's the eleventh annual compilation of PDML Quotations. As usual it covers about every topic under the sun – shoes and ships and sealing wax... and snakes and nekkid women. What more could you ask for? How about immortality in print? Yes, as has been the case for the past five years, we're going to include the Quotations List in the PDML Photo Annual. Production of the 2014 edition begins on January 1st, so start combing your files for your three best shots of 2013. All participating members of the PDML are elligible – let's see what you've got!

I once had a life where I wasn't envious of anything – then I took up photography.

— Cotty

I've never been a starving artist, but I've had some pretty severe cases of the munchies in my life.

— Walt Gilbert

The more words there are on a gallery wall next to a picture, the worse the picture.

— Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is ever 'just' something.

— Bob Walkden

Weathersealing is like seat belts, roll bars, and backing up my files. I count on them working, but avoid situations where I need to rely on them.

— Larry Colen

The Saskatchewan Roughriders (a football team, not a condom) just won the Gray Cup.

— Frank Theriault

I guess the moral of the story is that if one setting isn't working, try the other one.

— Matthew Hunt

The only people who are bigger wankers than self proclaimed artists are the people who debate about what qualifies as art.

— Larry Colen

Like everyone else, my creativity is fueled by the intimate knowledge of corporate structures.

— Walt Gilbert

There's always a way around the stupidity.

— Godfrey DiGiorgi

I've found that the ink for all printers is pretty cheap as long as you don't print anything.

— Bruce Dayton

I still have great admiration for Boris's pessimism.

— Steve Desjardins

It must be true, how can you ignore an internet forum that banned Bill Robb?

— Dave Brooks

You still qualify as the lucky bastard du jour.

— Larry Colen

Look ma, no HDR!

— Ann Sanfedele

If you construe the term broadly enough, I guess 'Utter Crap' is also a genre.

— Doug Franklin

It's not my thing either - but I've seen lots of others that I hate more...

— Brian Walters

I'm not saying the sky is falling. I'm just being realistic.

— P.J. Alling

If you are doubtful about how you like it, press on.

— Ann Sanfedele

Not bad. For annoyingly good values of not bad.

— Larry Colen

I have no sanity to maintain.

— Ann Sanfedele

If I read net comments much I really fear for humanity's future. Read them too much and I start to root for humanity's demise.

— Bruce Walker

One of my strategies for staying polite is to exclude people who annoy me.

— Bill Robb

If you really want a challenge go for a gnat's eyebrows.

— Mark Cassino

All I need now is a snake and a naked woman.

— John Sessoms

In information theory terms, the amount of entropy in your message is perilously close to zero.

— Bruce Walker

So what if I look like I just fell out of the Oxfam reject bin? I'm comfortable.

— Doug Brewer

The photos are very, very good, even the ones I don't understand!

— Ken Waller

Sometimes I'm glad when I don't know what things mean.

— Ann Sanfedele

And there was me thinking I was the only one who liked to dress up as a Japanese schoolgirl at weekends!

— Bob Walkden

I'm like a cat lady, only for lenses.

— Walt Gilbert

This is the only place on the net that I look forward to being hated :)

— Rob Studdert

I take blurry, tilted, out-of-focus photos. Some people think it's 'art'. It's a pretty good schtick. What's to improve?

— Frank Theriault

I have a talent for creating well-crafted, technically proficient photographs that interest nobody. To improve upon this, I am planning to give myself several severe blows to the head. On recovery, perhaps I will have attained an appreciation for making photos of cats.

— Doug Brewer

As an artist, I feel it's my duty to subvert conventions like the anti-feline zeitgeist that currently rules photography.

— Walt Gilbert

I don't know anything about it, but I'd be willing to bet money an endoscope is involved somehow.

— John Sessoms

Even if, like me, you already know everything, you may well find it worthwhile to spend a day listening to an accomplished craftsman talk about his way of doing things.

— Stan Halpin

Sometimes with B&W, you just have to decide what colour cast is least objectionable.

— Bill Robb

You've got lovely coconuts, and bananas to die for.

— Bob Walkden

Perhaps I'll call it my 'style' and pretend it's an artistic judgment.

— Dan Matyola

Close-but-no-cigar still means no cigar.

— Ctein (The Online Photographer)

Wow! Looks great on my phone.

— Paul Stenquist

I love the LX, but I don't miss it.

— Bill Robb

If you require a definition for the phrase 'individual experience', you're out of your depth.

— Doug Franklin

Write drunk. Edit sober.

— Ernest Hemingway (according to Doug Brewer)

He took good pictures.

— Steve Sharpe (referring to Bran Everseeking)

The best photo exercise regimen is to bend over and touch your toes. When the people who buy your photos have had their way with you, get up and to it again. Repeat until exhausted.

— Paul Stenquist

If all you care about is the experience of taking photos, grab your Nikon F3, Leica M4, Pentax LX, or whatever, and wander out onto the foggy moors without putting any film at all into the camera. You'll get the pure experience without spending a dime on anything but beer and cold medicine.

— Larry Colen

That's the time of day when Murphy's law hangs like wet, damp fog between a photographer and his coffee machine.

— Jostein Øksne

If you're buying it to match the sofa it's not art, it's decoration.

— Louise Reilly Sacco, The Museum of Bad Art

Wishing and dreaming are budget-friendly activities.

— Bruce Walker

Someday the internet will be ready for public use.

— Don Guthrie

Very Best is a moving standard.

— Bruce Walker

That is an excellent crazy theory, Boris.

— Miserere

This is to a simple snapshot what Citizen Kane is to America's Funniest Home Videos.

— Bruce Walker

#126 and #150 look like they should be hanging on the same wall somewhere. I'm not saying that I like them exactly, maybe I could tell if I could see them on that wall.

— P.J. Alling

I don't know if I like it. But it's what I meant.

— Ralph Vaughn Williams (on hearing one of his compositions played for the first time)

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