A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find..
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutte….
I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me..
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?.
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..
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 ….
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her othe….
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my desti….
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….
I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever wri….
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions..
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon m….
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible..
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay..
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject..
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits..
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it..
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody..
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad..
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?.
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewis….