Draws Quote by Sally Mann

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be…

— Annie Leibovitz

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings…

— Kehinde Wiley

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

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

— Annie Leibovitz

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

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

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a…

— Richard Avedon

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the…

— Kiki Smith

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

— Thomas Struth

Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name…

— Josh McDowell

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of…

— John Berger