Able Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being…

— Søren Kierkegaard

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

— Edward Steichen

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality.…

— Alton Tobey

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

— Imogen Cunningham

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

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

I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue…

— Ben Maddow

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

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

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

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

— Walker Evans