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
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
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
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
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Large portraits of Mao on wooden boards several feet high stood at main street corners. Painted to make the old man look… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
The most adorable thing about Toronto is that she remains fiercely aloof and indifferent to the fads and entrepreneurial fevers of her… — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on… — Ryan McGinley 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
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
Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would… — Alix Smith Copy Share Image
I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait. — Jon Witcomb Copy Share Image
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory,… — Siegfried Woldhek Copy Share Image
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you,… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page.… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
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![“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick…” quote by Pedro Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71a/pedro-meyer-46329_abuse_before-the-myth-of-photography-doesn-t-l_152663.jpg)
