The head of the photographer is more important than his camera.

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most..

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.

In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb mus….

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making..

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I d….

[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provokin….

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the ….

This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another ….

With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and e….

When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability ….

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques..

In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has ….

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easies….

Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer canno….

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface….

The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by ….

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were.

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears..

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human ….

Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess..