Top 30 Photography Portraits Quotes
#1. The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton
#2. Great is the Baptism that lies before you:44 a ransom to captives; a remission of offences; a death of sin; a new-birth of the soul; a garment of light; a holy indissoluble seal; a chariot to heaven; the delight of Paradise; a welcome into the kingdom; the gift of adoption!
Cyril Of Jerusalem
#3. When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#4. Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Matt Hardy
#5. A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Richard Avedon
#6. Beauty can be seen in all things ...
Matt Hardy
#7. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Bruce Lee
#8. Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.
Conan O'Brien
#9. Friendship often grows out of shared experiences
Andrew Hacker
#10. 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 there's nothing left of truth.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#13. 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 want to make portraits as intense as people.
Richard Avedon
#14. Be with me." Kit froze against him, a flesh and blood statue. "I can't be what you need," he whispered against the side of her head. "But be with me anyway.
Nalini Singh
#15. I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.
William Klein
#16. A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.
Richard Avedon
#17. I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless.
Ilana Glazer
#19. Since then, I've added my own shit to it as well. The worse it smells, the better things are going. That's the bacteria at work!
Andy Weir
#20. Establish a "zone of tranquility" where your drunken wife can't find you.
Viktor Kalvachev
#21. True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.
Criss Jami
#22. A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
Edward Steichen
#23. There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
Abraham Lincoln
#24. People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#25. When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but ... my portrait is a culmination of elements ... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.
Jamie Wyeth
#26. I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.
Larry Wall
#27. I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models ... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know ...
Francis Bacon
#28. Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#29. Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.
Victor Skrebneski
#30. As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
