Demand Quote by 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

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

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

— Philippe Halsman

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

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

— Thomas Struth

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

“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly applied emulsion,…

— Elizabeth Ross

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the…

— Giles Duley

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

— Bill Brandt