Alas Quote by Burton Silverman

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that…

— Paul Strand

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be…

— Annie Leibovitz

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

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a…

— Richard Avedon

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in…

— Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much…

— Richard Avedon