#portrait

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#continue #exposure #fifteen #fifteen minutes #first

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#characters #dad #disney #donald #donald duck

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#man #manners #mirror #portrait #shows

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#i #interested #literary #loved #many

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#eyes #intentions #mark #portrait #soul

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#find #image #just #photographs #portrait

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #architecture #else #every #himself

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

— Helmut Newton

#entertain #job #photographer #portrait #seduce

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

#art #inaacuracy #perspective #photography #portraits

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

— Charles Dickens

#expression #portrait #serious #art