Quotes About Identity

Violence and hatefulness have never been - nor will they ever be - who we are. This is the city I was born in, the city I was raised in and the city I love. Portland is also a united city.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a combination of their face and your face.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

I've always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O'Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there's not one image that can capture a woman, because we're changing all the time.

Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

Even if I delete something, I know somebody probably will have a screen shot. I portray myself how I want people to view me.

There are those who are value-oriented and those who are success-oriented. However shouldn't an actor deliver an image to his audience through roles he chooses to portray, based on his beliefs in life?

We're not the characters that we portray online, and even if we are, we're a 10-time version of ourselves. That's still not us. Most of the things we do, we wouldn't do in person.

I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

I want to portray myself as myself.

I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me. But it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face - my family that I love, that's all that really matter to me.

I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.

It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.