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So he stands in my portrait in what has always seemed to me the image of England in those years, defiant and unconquerable.

— Yousuf Karsh Portraits of Greatness (1959)

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The silence seemed to me more instructive than words. A sense of power clung to him like a garment, and it required no utterance. The square-cut and deeply graven face, the huge body, and, above all, the sombre granitic look indicated a singleness of purpose, a dedication to some inward and unshakable decision.

Portraits of Greatness (1959)

Among the tasks that life as a photographer had set me, a portrait of Albert Einstein had always seemed a 'must'—not only because this greatest refugee of our century has been accounted by all the world (except his homeland) as the outstanding scientist since Newton, but because his face, in all its rough grandeur, invited and challenged the camera.

Portraits of Greatness (1959)

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