That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New… — Anatole Broyard 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
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
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
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show. — Joe Piscopo Copy Share Image
Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff… — Greg Gorman Copy Share Image
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible. — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann 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
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
“...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
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first… — Mark Gatiss 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
With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image