Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina… — Medardo Rosso 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
I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control.… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait! — Scott Kahn 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
If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world,… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be:… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image