To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still..
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait..
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at..
I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . ..
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be o….
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close..
I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film..
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, beca….
In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph..
All photographs are self-portraits..
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is no….
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic..
Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself..
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation..
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my….
He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes….
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then be….
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background..
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists..
In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into….
The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world..