Capture Quote by Alexander Rodchenko

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release…

— Matthew Modine

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a…

— Francis Bacon

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

— Paul Caponigro

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

— James Whistler

“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How they want…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

— Bill Brandt

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality.…

— Alton Tobey

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch