Drawing Quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard

“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

The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in…

— John Szarkowski

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the…

— Alex Webb

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct,…

— Jessica Stockholder

In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs - that…

— Stuart Franklin

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his…

— Eugene Delacroix

The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture…

— Arthur Fry

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

“Instead, I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we’re looking at a person’s profile online,…

— David Levithan

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

— Willem de Kooning

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

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

— Ben Maddow