Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you,… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla 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
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
