I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits..

Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits..

Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and….

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg..

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg..

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 phot….

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I wa….

Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad..

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

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 ….

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot..

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound ….

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that t….

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion..

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a ….

According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portr….

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perf….

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

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film..

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it..