Portraits Quotes
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.
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The portraits are VERY difficult to make. The use of a skeleton creates an interesting balance between life and death.
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Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen it Charles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s split into quadrants and there’s four heads, basically—portraits of people. We’ve actually often thought and freaked out, what if something happened to Charles Burns? Because he’s so identified with the cover of our magazine, I don’t know what we would do if anything happened to Charles Burns.
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I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.
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All photographs are self-portraits.
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I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
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Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].
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If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.
