What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some… — Damien Hirst 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
I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J.… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into… — Kehinde Wiley 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
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
“All we can ever know about are the portraits of each other inside our own skulls.” — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman. — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person, — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
“But the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing… — Rachel Griffiths 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
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions:… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
