Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 233 authors

Thatâ€™s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. — Walker Evans
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my… — Yousuf Karsh
I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is… — Richard Avedon
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it.… — Richard Avedon
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 making… — Richard Avedon
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very… — Annie Leibovitz
I think self-portraits are very difficult. Iâ€™ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be… — Annie Leibovitz
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so. — Robert Rauschenberg
To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're… — Warren Christopher
Your library is your portrait. — Holbrook Jackson
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is… — John L. Casti
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news… — Walter W. Powell
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. — William Macneile Dixon
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are. — Rosamund Lupton
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world… — Irving Penn
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her.… — Irving Penn
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he… — Philippe Halsman
I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose, and… — Philippe Halsman
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really… — Philippe Halsman

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