Top Portraits Quotes Collection
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A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.Collection: Portraits
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.Collection: Portraits
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.Collection: Portraits
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.Collection: Portraits
To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed.Collection: Portraits
You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object; that it's not a window into something - you're not looking at a landscape, you're not looking at a portrait, but you're looking at a painting. It's basically: A painting is a painting is a painting. And it's what Frank Stella said famously: What you see is what you see.Collection: Portraits
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.Collection: Portraits
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.Collection: Portraits
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.Collection: Portraits
In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.Collection: Portraits
I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.Collection: Portraits
My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive.Collection: Portraits
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.Collection: Portraits
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.Collection: Portraits
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.Collection: Portraits
A remarkably revealing portrait.Collection: Portraits
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.Collection: Portraits
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.Collection: Portraits
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.Collection: 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.Collection: Portraits
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.Collection: Portraits
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.Collection: Portraits
When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.Collection: Portraits
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.Collection: Portraits
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.Collection: Portraits
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.Collection: Portraits
When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.Collection: Portraits
Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.Collection: Portraits
Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The web makes this very easy.Collection: Portraits
I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.Collection: Portraits
My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.Collection: Portraits
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.Collection: Portraits
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.Collection: Portraits
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.Collection: Portraits
The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.Collection: Portraits
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.Collection: Portraits
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.Collection: Portraits
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.Collection: Portraits
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.Collection: 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?Collection: Portraits
Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.Collection: Portraits
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.Collection: Portraits
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.Collection: Portraits
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.Collection: Portraits
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.Collection: Portraits
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographedCollection: Portraits
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.Collection: Portraits
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.Collection: Portraits
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.Collection: Portraits