I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
“I often paint self-portraits for it is I that know myself best-Freida Kahlo.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show. — Joe Piscopo 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
“Tommy showed me around, starting with the photos on the walls, many of which were of himself, including a few grand, framed… — Greg Sestero 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
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting… — Eleanor Clift 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
If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown...… — Jeremy Larner 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
Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a… — Philippe Halsman 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
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be:… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at… — Grimes 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
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
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw… — Nick Carter Copy Share Image
I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several… — Imogen Cunningham 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
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz 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
Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to… — Charis Wilson Copy Share Image
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