Expression Quote by Bill Brandt Download Open image “In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.” — Bill Brandt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expression Fleeting Painting Portraits Snapshots Trying Vivacity
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and… — Gavid Hood Copy Share Image
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Instead of asking a girl how she feels, try looking through her recently listened to songs. The lyrics are the answer to all your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
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