Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced…

— Martin Schoeller

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to…

— Walt Whitman

I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my…

— Kehinde Wiley

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor…

— Isaac Asimov

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

— George Santayana

“One measure of how deeply these myths express elemental human concerns is the extent to which they are both timeless and universal. Mythologists and…

— Margaret Mark

Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people…

— Chuck Klosterman

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

— Ira Glass

I wasn‘t—" I began. I didn‘t—" He began. How charming," V‘lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of…

— Karen Marie Moning

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the…

— Vince Lombardi

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

— Mary Ellen Mark

In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't…

— Deng Xiaoping

In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to paint a…

— Julian Bream

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson