Painting Quote by Elizabeth Ross

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

— Thomas Struth

“I think that a good portrait reveals a suggestion of the subject’s mind, and not just a representation of how they look. It’s by…

— Elizabeth Ross

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

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but…

— Richard Avedon

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

— Philippe Halsman

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 photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its…

— Gerhard Richter

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

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…

— Richard Avedon

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…

— Richard Avedon

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ],…

— Kerry James Marshall

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should…

— Bill Brandt