In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen? — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“A portrait can change its character depending on where it is placed and what light it receives.” — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
At a certain point in his life, when he reaches a level of stature, a man commissions his portrait to go over… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
Just in the last week of his life, you could have seen him at Walgreens or at the Electric Fetus, where he… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and… — Rose George Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint you suddenly wonder why in the world… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So,… — Damien Chazelle 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
Brandon McCaw did a portrait on a start ofhe period was marked by an astonishing breadth and vitality in cultural life for… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“Grant paused in the act of turning the thing over, to consider the face a moment longer. A judge? A soldier? A… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
![“[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2d/kerry-james-marshall-5157_art_my-picture-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a_2641070.jpg)
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