Facets Quote by Arnold Newman

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

Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and…

— Gisele Freund

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

— Emile Gruppe

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never…

— Duane Michals

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 think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller

“The development of an image is a mysterious thing: once a public figure has been cast in a public role, it is almost impossible…

— Theodore H. White

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the…

— Imogen Cunningham

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way,…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen