He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete… — Terrence Howard 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
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the… — August Sander Copy Share Image
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist? — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious. — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
