Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Alfred Stieglitz

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.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Robert Harris

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Tommy Lasorda

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Roland Barthes

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

Berenice Abbott

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

Dorothea Lange

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

David Bailey

I never set out to be a photographer.

Andre Kertesz

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Annie Leibovitz

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Susan Sontag

Photographers are always imposing

Rene Burri

I never thought I would become a photographer.

Robert Adams

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

Stephen Sondheim

Only capitalists get photographers.