Abstract Quote by Douglas Rushkoff

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was…

— David Ogilvy

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged…

— Philip Pearlstein

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do…

— David Gandy

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

— Anonymous

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push…

— Cindy Sherman

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're…

— Sigmar Polke

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 job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and…

— Jeff Koons

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between…

— Alberto Giacometti

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are…

— Helena Christensen

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