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• 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 Quotes - Photographers
• A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.
  Richard Avedon Quotes - Photographers
• When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?
  Francesco Clemente Quotes - painting portraits - Artists
• If one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. No knowledge. I do not want to know him at all. I want only to see what is there, the outside. The inner follows by itself. It is mirrored in the visible.
  Otto Dix Quotes - art advice - Artists
• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
  Oscar Wilde Quotes - Novelists - Poets