Humans Quote by Philippe Halsman

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

— Jimenez Lai

I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that…

— John Podesta

With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with…

— Philippe Halsman

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

— Edward Steichen

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

— Robert Breault

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent