“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I've had a reoccurring dream about hanging out with Britney Spears, so maybe it would be fun to chill with her for… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures… — Rankin Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot -… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
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