Quotes about portrait
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
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.
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
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
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.
portraits
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait. Lucian Freud
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
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
portraits fame models
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame. Jean Cocteau
portraits torture
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture. Ira Glass
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
portraits photographer brooms
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits. Minor White
portraits moments accurate
The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history. Maria Shriver
portraits gallery
I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery. Mark Gatiss
portraits kind corny
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing. Mary-Louise Parker
portraiture shirts fronts
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. Paul Cezanne
portraits taking-pictures natural
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.
portraits behinds
In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind. Mary Ellen Mark
portraits chemistry electricity
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry. Michael Faraday
portraits scandalous
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo. Helmut Newton
portraits knows
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed Richard Avedon
portraits would-be rich
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. Robert Harris
portraits ifs
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait. Robert Rauschenberg
portraits good-enough paint
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough. Sarah Ruhl
portraits example photographer
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this. Yousuf Karsh
portraits currency stamps
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait. Ralph Waldo Emerson