A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall 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
Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact.… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
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