I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing. — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
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
That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting. — Giorgio Armani 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
Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me. — Judy Dater Copy Share Image
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject.… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I'm that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso 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
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just… — Jade Puget Copy Share Image
I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
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