Character Quote by Anton Corbijn

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

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

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I…

— Peter Turnley

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people…

— Anton Corbijn

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'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study…

— Francesco Carrozzini

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone…

— John Loengard

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

“Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are…

— Esther Verhoef

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom…

— Penelope Cruz