Born Quote by Imogen Cunningham

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

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

— Astrid Kirchherr

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

— Jamie Wyeth

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

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

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

— Thom Yorke

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

— Salvador Dali

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

— Imogen Cunningham

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

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

— Paul Caponigro

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a…

— Francis Bacon