Average Quote by Ray Metzker

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

— Jamie Wyeth

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

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

— Lotte Jacobi

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

— Ari Marcopoulos

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

— Yousuf Karsh

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I…

— Nan Goldin

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

— Gisele Freund

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to…

— William Klein

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of…

— Thomas Ruff

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a…

— Francis Bacon

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look…

— Rankin