It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to…

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

— David Hockney

Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the…

— Roger Deakins

“I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces; whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them. I…

— Paul Strand

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

— Paul Strand

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 do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may…

— Eliot Porter

“The best thing about a photograph is that it never changes. Even if the people in it do.”

— Andy Warhol

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

— Diane Arbus

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough…

— Robert Frank

Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on…

— Maggie Stiefvater

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black & white you photograph their souls.

— Anonymous