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portraits creation
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Alexander Smith
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 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 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 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 remain
I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria. Maria Altmann
portraits
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait. Lucian Freud
gallery george past six traveled york
I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
gallery kept paintings
When he painted, he kept paintings which were significant to him. In all these years he's had a gallery ... he's never exhibited (private works).
gallery privilege showing
There has never been a gallery here for me to show my work. I show all over the country, and I've never had the privilege of showing in a gallery here.
gallery people
People are intimidated by galleries, ... Being interactive with the gallery is a very important thing.
gallery general growing hope importance national scholars static
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public. Paul Mellon
gallery soothing copies
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. Howard Hodgkin
gallery work
Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.' Richard Prince