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Portrait Quotes by Irving Penn
- 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…
- 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.…
- In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is…
- Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to…
- The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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- The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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- I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman
- The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott
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