#portrait

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#entertain #job #photographer #portrait #seduce

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#angles #being #being there #come #i

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#expression #portrait #serious #art

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

#china #chinese #photography #photography-book #photos

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#photography #portraits #beauty

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. ↗

— James Whistler

#like #long #long time #look #man

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#artists #envious #few #good #i

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #his #law #man #nature

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#drawn #lovingly #parents #portrait