I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

I love people, and photographing people is something I hope I never get tired of.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

— Eve Arnold

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might…

— Carol Friedman

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the…

— Larry Clark

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

— James Nachtwey

Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I…

— Joyce Tenneson

When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I…

— Nan Goldin

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

— Annie Leibovitz

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

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

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.

— Mona Kuhn

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it…

— Mona Kuhn