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portraits remain
I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria. Maria Altmann
portraits creation
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Alexander Smith
portraits portraiture paint
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject. Jamie Wyeth
portraits danger methodology
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
portraits demand motion-pictures
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. Alfred Stieglitz
portraits process sat
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. Anthony Powell
portraits bookcases
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Anatole Broyard
portraits firsts recognition
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place. Chuck Close
portraits satan should
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering. George Eliot
portraiture faces portraits
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
portraiture roger able
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin. E. M. Forster
portraiture shirts fronts
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. Paul Cezanne
portraiture want portraits
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want? Oriana Fallaci
portraiture portraits self-portrait
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
portraiture portraits paint
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. Otto Dix
portraiture enough drag
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image? Plotinus
painted
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery. John Burnside
painted quite
Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.
painting chapel creator
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor Edvard Munch
painting holes ten
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
paints picture thousand
If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you? David Gates
paint wish
I wish I could paint like that again, but I don't want to go there again.
painter people share switching theory
I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. Jordan Bridges
paintings trying ways
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings. Damien Hirst
paint
I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head. Persis Khambatta