“In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.” ArtSelfSubjectsPaintingExperiencePortraitsRevealingFamous ArtistPortraitureSelf PortraitSelf Portrait Photography Author:Richard Schmid
“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.” ArtCareersGoneSubjectsPaintingHonorPhotographyTraditionAimRemainsEverydayPortraitsCordelia Book:On photography Source: On photography
“Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.” SubjectsPaintPortraitsPortraiture Author:Jamie Wyeth
“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.” CharacterWantedMy OwnStudySubjectsPaintPortraitsPortraiture Author:William Dobell
“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.” IfsShowsArtistWishPerfectSubjectsPhotographyAbsolutesPaintPhotographerPainterPortraitsFidelityOld Days Author:Aubrey Beardsley
“A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.” ShouldFilmProcessSubjectsRemainsAssumingInvisibleSuperiorsFilmmakerVisiblePortraitsTopicsSimplestEvokeEnigmaBest FilmNever Assume Author:Damian Pettigrew
“Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.” PeopleYearsLooksKindMeanMadeMatterWholePastFacesActorsPowerfulFiveSubjectsSittingTwentiesPhotographDeeperDecadesFive YearsClothingsPortraitsSentimentalInventingTwenty FiveMorbidPicture Taking Book:Mao II Source: Mao II
“That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.” CultureSubjectsPopsPortraitsPop CultureIconsWarhol Author:Giorgio Armani
“Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see a portrait of two people. The worst thing that can happen is if you're misquoted and then that quote is misquoted. That does drive one crazy. The most embarrassing thing is when your words are misrepresented or sometimes you say something stupid and you live to regret it.” PeopleIfsLooksDoeTwoSometimesHappensArtistCrazyWorstSubjectsStupidRegretImpressionJournalistInterviewsPortraitsWorst ThingsEmbarrassing Author:Antony Hegarty
“There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.” PersonsRealSubjectsComfortablePhotographerMythRelaxPortraitsReal Person Author:Annie Leibovitz
“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.” IfsSaidSubjectsEffectsPurePhotographyAbsolutesMirrorsStartingPsychologicalPrincipalPortraitsStarting PointAbsolute Truth Author:August Sander
“Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.” CountryHouseGreaterSubjectsTastePhotographyHillsCharmProportionPortraitsStrengtheningPortrait Photography Author:William Henry Jackson
“Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice.” ThinkingTryingStillsRecordsSubjectsPerformancesAimStrivePhotographerObjectivesAcknowledgeInstantReachingGesturesPortraitsArtificeFacial Author:Martin Schoeller
“The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.” MatterProblemSubjectsMediaPhotographyVisiblePortraitsSubject Matter Author:Thomas Struth