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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 (Portrait Quotes)
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping (Portrait Quotes)
The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait (Portrait Quotes)
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth (Portrait Quotes)
It’s a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It’s accurate but it isn’t profound (Portrait Quotes)
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 (Portrait Quotes)
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 part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what’s happening, and he has a certain real power over the result (Portrait Quotes)
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about (Portrait Quotes)
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don’t have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won’t forget. That’s a portrait (Portrait Quotes)
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 making of a portrait is all about (Portrait Quotes)
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship (Portrait Quotes)
The facts of the present won’t sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion (Portrait Quotes)
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe (Portrait Quotes)
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were (Portrait Quotes)
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth (Portrait Quotes)
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others (Portrait Quotes)
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach (Portrait Quotes)
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger (Portrait Quotes)
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future (Portrait Quotes)
Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances (Portrait Quotes)
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece (Portrait Quotes)
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere (Portrait Quotes)
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology (Portrait Quotes)
In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside... Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe (Portrait Quotes)
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I do, the portrait, the landscapes, or any interest that I have. Things are good enough as they are, there’s no reason to tamper with them (Portrait Quotes)
I tell you it’s no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don’t think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless (Portrait Quotes)
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit (Portrait Quotes)
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It’s the same at an art gallery. You’re looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it’s all energy. Every single thing has energy (Portrait Quotes)
I’m very particular who I work with. I’m not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I’m interested in a model who I can take a portrait of (Portrait Quotes)
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them (Portrait Quotes)