Model Representation Quotes

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

When I was signed by Elite Model Agency, my mom felt it was the right place as it was a professional agency.

I was a model scout. I was never a model, but they just dropped the scout.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

Social media has truly helped my career because it has given models a voice. And a voice is something that we want to see a change in the industry.

I would really love to work with major photographers who haven't featured plus-size models before.

I would love for models to be protected by a guild.

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.

I wasn't put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a plus-size model; I was put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham.

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.

We couldn't afford to move, so we decided to start up a model agency.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

You never know when or where you will find the next new model, but you can bet someone from Ford Models will be looking.

Models are people. A lot of people like to make us some species that are not human; we are normal people.

Having worked with many of the world's top modeling agencies for the last decade, I've seen what works and doesn't work in managing a model's career.

From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.