Documentaries Quote by Walker Evans

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the…

— Spike Jonze

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

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

— Dana Spiotta

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Samuel Johnson

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being…

— Philippe Halsman

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel