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
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad,… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or… — Kate DiCamillo 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
If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel… — Michiko Kakutani 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
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
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
In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live…… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
And I was very successful at baby photography... Strange isn't it? Because some of my portraits of babies were - I used… — Julius Shulman Copy Share Image
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader.… — Audrey Niffenegger 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
Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No… — James A. Baldwin 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
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then… — Victor Skrebneski Copy Share Image
![“I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering…” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/279/kate-dicamillo-599_doubt_i-don-t-know-what-alison-mcghee-thinks-b_1323213.jpg)
![“If you look at the image [ Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], it treads on a kind of popular stereotypical image of the black figure, in both its flatness and slightly comic edge. To take that image as a starting point and to render it in a proto-classical medium, like egg…” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/584/kerry-james-marshall-5157_art_if-you-look-at-the-image-portrait-of-the_829024.jpg)
![“It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.” quote by Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ff/steven-spielberg-963_capitol_it-lincoln-movie-had-nothing-to-do-with_993663.jpg)
![“The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.” quote by Bonnie Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1b3/bonnie-friedman-26515_altars_the-only-way-the-book-can-be-written-is_2960677.jpg)
![“Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff for a long time - and he said, Greg, I want to look like a high-profile celebrity, living on the edge. I think that says it all.” quote by Greg Gorman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/282/greg-gorman-101483_80s_jeff-koons-called-me-because-he-d-seen-a_1446710.jpg)
