My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
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As quoted in Newsmakers (2002) by Laura AveryHelmut Newton
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
Aubrey Beardsley
You'll never make me stay
So take your weight off of me.
I know your every move
So won't you just let me be.
I've been here times before
But I was too blind to see
That you seduce every man.
This time you won't seduce me.Michael Jackson
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
Aldous Huxley
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them -- a diminishing number in my case.
Evelyn Waugh
A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted.
Samuel (novelist Butler
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