I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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.
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
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.
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
A remarkably revealing portrait.
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was
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.
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.
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 likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.
To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.
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