It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
For fragrance, I only wear Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. People at work know I'm there when they smell it. — Anastasia Soare Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject,rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait. — Ceejay Copy Share Image
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he… — Dore Schary Copy Share Image
Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
In the case of the Obama poster, I was just exercising my First Amendment rights - and my free speech is exercised… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The Trump campaign generally does not respond at all to my requests for information - either requests for broader data on Trump's… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I think of something I read about Sargent: how in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci.… — Ellsworth Kelly 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
“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
“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
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“How about I take you to my studio? Much less dangerous. Plus, I need a model and you could sit for me."… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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