Aim Quote by Yousuf Karsh

Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal…

— Joyce Tenneson

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

— Dennis Stock

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in…

— Richard Avedon

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

— Thomas Struth

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to…

— Harry Callahan

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The…

— Alexandra Kerry

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed…

— Irving Penn