What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach. — Gilbert Stuart Copy Share Image
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. — Edvard Munch 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
What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects.… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the… — Thomas S. Buechner Copy Share Image
Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs… — Charles Dickens 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
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