“How about I take you to my studio? Much less dangerous. Plus, I need a model and you could sit for me.”
“You want me to sit for a portrait?” I asked stunned.
“Actually, at the moment I’m concentrating on full-length nudes, in the spirit of Modigliani,” Jules said. He was making an effort to keep a straight face. “Just kidding, Kates. You’re a lady.”
Jules was trying the guilt-trip method of attack. And it was working.
“Ok I’ll pose for you,” I conceded. “But under no circumstances will any article of clothing leave my body whilst I am in your studio.”
“And if you’re elsewhere?” he asked, breaking into a sly smile.
I rolled my eyes.”
― Amy Plum, Until I Die
“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
– Edward Steichen
“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
– Paul Caponigro
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
– Diane Arbus
