Complexes Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

— Irving Penn

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

— Amy Sherald

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings…

— Kehinde Wiley

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

— Annie Leibovitz

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality.…

— Alton Tobey

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

— Thomas Struth