Victor Skrebneski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.
-- Victor Skrebneski

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To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder. Music cues the subject and me when to shoot. The music played during a photography session is most important - stimulating to the subject and to me. As in a film, the music builds or becomes quiet, romantic; just one note sets the actor up to emote for his audience. I want a reciprocal portrait, not a bureaucratic one
-- Victor Skrebneski

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Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. Itâ€™s absurd. We run the risk of warping whatâ€™s best in us
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

Victor Skrebneski famous quotes

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