Intimacy Quote by Francesco Clemente

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the…

— Giles Duley

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

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a…

— Hilary Hahn

“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

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

— Vera Farmiga

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

— Henri Matisse

I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look like they're…

— Tina Barney

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives…

— Kehinde Wiley

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

— Bill Brandt

Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced…

— Martin Schoeller

The idea of the portrait itself is my great love. The questions and answers in it can go on forever and ever. It is…

— Tina Barney

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in…

— Annie Leibovitz