“ 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 photograph… Richard Avedon
“ All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs. Brent M. Jones
“ The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. Thomas Babington Macaulay
“ If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters… Héloïse d'Argenteuil
“ There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable and delusive charm. There is nothing but that which we put there ourselves. That is why h… Jean Lorrain
