Littles Quote by John Singer Sargent

“A portrait is a picture with something wrong with the mouth”

— John Singer Sargent

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be…

— Annie Leibovitz

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings…

— Kehinde Wiley

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

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that…

— Paul Strand

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

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How they want…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

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

— Thomas Struth

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