portrait, n.Definitions

A Portrait is a search for the silence in somebody.

A Portrait is an art whose subject doesn't want justice, but mercy.

The Portrait comes from deep in the soul of the painter where the machine can't go.

A Portrait is the difficult act of putting one's camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

A Portrait is identifiable as a good portrait only if the eyes follow you around the room.

The Portrait is represented by only two styles: the serious and the smirk.

The Portrait is created not by compelling a sitter to remain as stationary as possible. Rather, it is valuable to keep the sitter moving and talking and unconscious of being painted... not to extract some essence, but to establish, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.

The Portrait is not painted to look like the subject, rather it is painted such that the person grows to look like his portrait.