Clutter Quote by William Macneile Dixon

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Salvador Dali

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

— Douglas McCulloh

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

— Richard Greenberg

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

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

— Richard Avedon

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but…

— Richard Avedon

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

— Charles Tomlinson

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

— Estela Portillo Trambley

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be…

— Alfred Stieglitz