Photograph Quote by Annie Leibovitz

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

— Rineke Dijkstra

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore,…

— Susan Sontag

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

— Douglas Kirkland

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

— Eric Cantona

When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying…

— Amy Arbus

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

— Maggie Smith

I'm always trying to make a connection with the person I'm photographing. I don't want to just come away with a shot that I…

— Mary McCartney

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

— Steven Sebring

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

— James Nachtwey

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of…

— Diane Arbus

If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still…

— Garry Winogrand

I'm no photographer, but I can picture you with me.

— Anonymous