"A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed"

-- Richard Avedon

#Portraits Quotes

“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”
“It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...”
“Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'”
“According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.”
“Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
“Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.”
“I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.

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