The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second — Charles Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in… — Plutarch 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
My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries. — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein 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
You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an… — Chris Bauer Copy Share Image
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Not only did Mao Zedong Thought lead us to victory in the revolution in the past; it is - and will continue… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
