Top 41 Quotes About Self Portrait Photography
#1. 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
#2. The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.
Tom Carter
#3. 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.
Paul Caponigro
#4. I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.
Joyce Tenneson
#6. He'd never need a camera to remember this, and damn if he ever wanted anyone but him to see her like she was at this moment.
Kelly Moran
#7. The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings
crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
Larry McMurtry
#8. 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.
Susan Sontag
#9. Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.
David DuChemin
#10. Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.
Peter Dickinson
#11. I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography - that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.
Joel Meyerowitz
#12. My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
Helmut Newton
#13. To lose is to die! You may win a thousand fights, but you can only lose one!
R.A. Salvatore
#14. I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard.
Jim Butcher
#15. With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken - formerly it was only the prominent - and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait.
Soren Kierkegaard
#16. 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.
William Henry Jackson
#17. 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
#18. I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.
Thomas Ruff
#19. The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
Thomas Struth
#20. I don't want to be the biggest superstar. I want to be good at my job, and I want my work to go down in posterity. I am working for the longevity of my career.
Sonam Kapoor
#21. The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS
Tony Robbins
#22. In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
Raphael Millet
#23. Mad at me. For Dad, parenting has become just like shooting one of his stupid insurance ads-some makeup to cover the blemishes, a flashy smile, and wham! He's got himself a regular picture-perfect family.
Holly Schindler
#24. The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them?
T.A
#25. I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.
Lena Dunham
#26. I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.
Josh Fox
#27. Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.
John Sexton
#28. Always can find someone who have more pain, more hurt than you. Always can find someone who need help. And you always have something to give. Even when you think you have nothing.
Julie Cantrell
#29. 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
#30. I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew.
Molly Moore
#31. By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.
Sigmar Polke
#32. 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
#33. 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.
Aubrey Beardsley
#34. If she cries, he will nose his way into her arms and curl up there until she calms down and falls asleep. I'm so glad I didn't drown him.
Suzanne Collins
#35. Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
John Muir
#36. 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
#37. I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.
Sebastiao Salgado
#38. A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
Edward Steichen
#39. Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce.
Rush Limbaugh
#40. You make your life with someone and you love that person and you think it's enough. But it's never enough, is it?
I couldn't say. I don't know anything about love anymore.
Paula McLain
#41. All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
Nancy Kress
