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Portrait Quotes by Richard Avedon
- 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 part…
- A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
- A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an…
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- 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
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- 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