Apes Quote by Ben Maddow

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

— Victor Skrebneski

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— William Mortensen

If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it…

— Yousuf Karsh

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every…

— Arnold Newman

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

— Thomas Struth

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found…

— John Loengard

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal…

— Joyce Tenneson

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

— Jamie Wyeth