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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. Jamie Wyeth
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 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
portraiture shirts fronts
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. Paul Cezanne
want faces misery
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing. Charles Dickens
want waste firsts
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. Charles Spurgeon
want revival reverence
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
want walks
I want to walk through life. Alanis Morissette
want wake-up illusion
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. Alan Watts
want doe angle
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does? Alan Rickman
want making-money
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. Alan Greenspan
want painting feels
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. Alan Bean
want herds
I don't want to follow the herd. Alain Robert
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.
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