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Portrait Quotes by Patrick Demarchelier
- When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy.…
- My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
More Portrait Quotes
- 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
- But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you… — Jane Campion
- The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic
- 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
- A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as… — Richard Avedon
- A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be… — Richard Avedon
- According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing… — Alain de Botton
- Each person's work is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Johnson
- It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to… — Max Beerbohm