I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold. — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
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
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot. — Bill Brandt 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
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits… — Guillermo del Toro 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
As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand… — Vera Nazarian 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
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
“Large portraits of Mao on wooden boards several feet high stood at main street corners. Painted to make the old man look… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
The most adorable thing about Toronto is that she remains fiercely aloof and indifferent to the fads and entrepreneurial fevers of her… — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco 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
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
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