What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a…

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

It's these leftwing people, who always put themselves above the rest, who are fascists.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

— Carl Sandburg

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.

— Thom Yorke

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

— Annie Leibovitz

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define…

— Richard Avedon

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

— John Ford

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

— Jock Sturges

I try to photograph with love and sympathy.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

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

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

I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.

— Duane Michals