Duane Michals

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.

American Photographer

Eric Kandel

One can, in principle, outline sort of a set of neural circuits that are critically involved and even identify disorders that affect different components of that neural circuit and see what happens if you knock out, for example, inability to recognize faces, how it affects your response to portraiture.

American Scientist

Peter Lindbergh

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

German Photographer

Jemima Kirke

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

American Actress

Kehinde Wiley

What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.

American Artist

Annie Leibovitz

I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

Hilton Als

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

American Writer

Antony Sher

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

South African Writer

Laurie Simmons

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

Amy Sherald

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

Portraiture in art captures emotions and personality, not just physical appearance.

Artistic Expression

Though photographs can be portraits, portraiture often implies handcrafted art.

Beyond Photography

Artistic portraiture can provide a glimpse into the history and culture of a time.

Historical Insight

In writing, portraiture goes deep into character traits, backgrounds, and emotions.

Literary Depth

Literary portraiture often focuses on inner qualities, not just outer appearance.

Not Physical

Portraiture in literature helps readers imagine characters as if they were real people.

Storytelling Tool

 what he's seeing and documenting now we know this story we know the story of ordinary citizens taking tools that are generally used for distributing that class of portraiture called selfie with third margarita and actually pressing those same tools into political use but

How can social media...

 when they're more raw unexpected when they're kind of forget that they're being photographed for a moment if you ask the people that are not in the pictures they all like them and say oh my god if it's the honors that feel so different from all the other portraiture

Proof: Martin Schoeller...

 I also did portraiture as well. I've worked for lots of different magazines, lots of great clients. But I was always told, every single day, who was beautiful. I was forced to work within certain parameters of the beauty standard.

Rick Guidotti: From...

 she becomes a psychological subject. Her eye contact and slightly parted lips, as if she is about to say something, draw us into her gaze. Traditional subjects of portraiture were often nobility or religious figures.