Comfortable Quote by Annie Leibovitz

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the…

— Giles Duley

People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance…

— Mick Rock

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a…

— Tim Walker

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

— Astrid Kirchherr

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in…

— Richard Avedon

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed…

— Irving Penn

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

— Ryan Giggs

Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100…

— Albert Watson

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look…

— Rankin

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to…

— Bruce Barnbaum