I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
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
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into… — G. M. Trevelyan 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
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you… — Jane Campion 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
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity,… — M. William Phelps Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's… — Bill Brandt 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
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
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
