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
I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits,… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
I have a lifetime project which consists of boxes and boxes filled with envelopes on which people have written my name. I've… — Micah Lexier 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
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without? — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like… — David Lynch 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
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
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