About Quote by Kehinde Wiley

The office of the president is meant to confer dignity.

— Neil Macdonald

In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised visually. People…

— Shepard Fairey

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

[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The…

— James David Barber

Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities…

— Mark McKinnon

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

— Woodrow Wilson

“Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.”

— Nina LaCour

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

— Paul Valery

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

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

“There is, after all, a real limit to how much ordinary people can learn and know, and to demand that each and every one…

— Kazuo Ishiguro