I often try to photograph things about a person that are…

I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone…

— Roy DeCarava

“If you’re an invisible person, of course you’re going to dress ostentatiously and flamboyantly, so people will finally start seeing you. I used to…

— Jarod Kintz

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the…

— Catherine Opie

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity.…

— Juergen Teller

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

— Irving Penn

I try to photograph with love and sympathy.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

— Barbara Ess

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

— Martin Parr

I try to photograph thoughts.

— Mario Giacomelli

“He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. Things…

— David Nicholls

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

— Man Ray

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

— Janet Malcolm

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in…

— Man Ray

Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal…

— Stephen Shore

I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph,…

— Robert Adams