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
You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. — Victor Skrebneski Copy Share Image
Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a… — Margot Livesey 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
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In The Moon, Come to Earth Philip Graham takes us on the best kind of journey, as he simultaneously reveals the fascinating… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that… — David Amram Copy Share Image
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm… — Richard Avedon 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
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you. — John Currin Copy Share Image
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The image by Barry Blitt of Barack Obama and Michelle in the White House with him dressed as a terrorist, her dressed… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable and delusive charm.… — Jean Lorrain 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
What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
