Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009. — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
I had a tattoo of Jaden Smith. A very accurate portrait of a 15-year-old Jaden Smith. — Sal Vulcano Copy Share Image
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in street photography. Also landscapes, wildlife photography, animals, portrait photography of people, and I calibrate my photos. I don't… — Stefanos Tsitsipas Copy Share Image
“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia.… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
We hear a lot in this country about family, and 'American Family' just shows us a portrait we haven't seen as much… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
When FDR died in 1945, he was still paralyzed from the waist down. After he died, his portrait was put on the… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
I sort of feel that the role of a portrait in society is to represent the sitters, we see paintings of Shakespeare… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
“It was an archetypal ruin portrait, a sub-genre that was terribly common during the fifteenth century. The top third of the picture-plane… — Sylvie Cathrall Copy Share Image
“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask, the flawlessly pure image… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Portrait of A Human (Sonnet 2938) Books are my jewellery, memories are my assets. Languages are my liquor, cultures are my cocaine.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Something about the occasion makes me think I'm at my own wake. Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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