I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

Mourinho knows me! He sat in my lap as a little boy, and wanted his photograph taken with me. I knew his father and…

— Eusebio

My brother had fabulous children before I had children and for some reason I wanted to photograph them, and that was when I got…

— Peter Lindbergh

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

— Matt Damon

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover…

— Bill Brandt

As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to…

— Annie Leibovitz

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph…

— Garry Winogrand

I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It', and they gave me the drawings they…

— Douglas Kirkland

Im just interested in what makes a photograph.

— Mary Ellen Mark

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from…

— Anne Geddes

The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless…

— Stanley Cavell

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The…

— Roland Barthes

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and…

— Alicia Ostriker