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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.

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How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good fami…

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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 …

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

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It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

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And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though …

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I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that…

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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

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You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with …

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