Believe Quote by Katy Grannan

I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of…

— Thomas S. Buechner

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show…

— Irving Penn

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the…

— Irving Penn

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

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

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

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100…

— Albert Watson

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

“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