Began Quote by Gabriel Lippmann

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

— James Whistler

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release…

— Matthew Modine

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

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the…

— Mark Twain

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

— Thomas Struth

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

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be…

— Alfred Stieglitz

“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly applied emulsion,…

— Elizabeth Ross

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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