Boxes Quote by Micah Lexier

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Johnson

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a…

— Hilary Hahn

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

An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that…

— Jacques Derrida

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the…

— Paul Strand

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

I take portraits for people, I like doing that kind of stuff. It's a different way to collaborate and to see other people. I've…

— Jerrika Hinton

I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very…

— Joyce Tenneson

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak…

— Margaret Bourke-White

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives…

— Kehinde Wiley