Painting Quote by Helmut Newton

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

— Astrid Kirchherr

“It’s because I’m a witch that I can take these pictures,” Jennie said.  “A good portrait photographer shows the outside of a person; a…

— Debora Geary

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look…

— Rankin

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

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in…

— Richard Avedon

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the…

— Imogen Cunningham

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and…

— Errol Morris

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

— Helmut Newton

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times…

— David Hockney

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things.…

— David Bailey

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado