You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.

- Anton Corbijn

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

- David Bailey

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

- David Bailey

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

- David Bailey

Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.

- Claire Cameron

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

- Chris Jordan

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

- Brady Corbet

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

- Andre Kertesz

It's always weird doing love scenes. And the thing is, you can't really photograph two people kissing naturally, because then you wouldn't be able to see anything.

- Annabella Sciorra

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

- Alfred Stieglitz

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

- Andy Warhol

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

- Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

- Ansel Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

- Ansel Adams

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

- Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

- Ansel Adams

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

- Ansel Adams

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

- Annie Leibovitz

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

- Annie Leibovitz

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.

- Annie Leibovitz