"What I really do is make portraits of the soul." Jan Saudek
"I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin." J. D. Salinger
"Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?" Clarice Lispector
"But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse." Emily Dickinson
"If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait." Robert Rauschenberg
"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are." J. K. Rowling
"Be yourself; everyone else is taken." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid." William Faulkner
"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." Jack Kerouac
"In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind." Mary Ellen Mark
“When I am laid in earth, May my wrongs create / No trouble in thy breast; / Remember me, but ah! forget my fate” Henry Purcell
“You who saw it all, / Or saw flashes and fragments, / Take form us some example / Try and get yourselves together, / Clean up your act.” Allen Ginsberg
"Je est un autre. (I is someone else)." Arthur Rimbaud
"Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?" Clarice Lispector
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." Albert Camus
"It's been a long time since I've been me." Fernando Pessoa
“The devil is in the details”. Popular
"Deserve your dream." Octavio Paz
"Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight." Duane Michals
"If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone." ~ William Shakespeare
"The more a man knows, the less he talks." Voltaire
"Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson." T. S. Eliot
“I’m the keeper of nothin' but an old flame.” Andrew Marlin
“Our heads are round so thought can change direction.” Allen Ginsberg
"The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet." Nikos Kazantzakis
"Be yourself; everyone else is taken." Oscar Wilde
"You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am" Immanuel Kant