I take portraits for people, I like doing that kind of stuff. It's a different way to collaborate and to see other… — Jerrika Hinton Copy Share Image
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in… — Gene Sarazen Copy Share Image
As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
By giving our audience intimate access to the lives of musicians, we hope to raise awareness of the region's beautiful cultural heritage… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
![“Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything to today's discussion are the insights into the Biblical texts that are contained in his lectures and books. They include Messengers of God [1976], Five Biblical Portraits [1978]…” quote by Hershel Shanks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/327/hershel-shanks-25800_biblical_awarded-the-nobel-peace-prize-in-1986-el_864515.jpg)
![“Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]” quote by Tacitus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba7/tacitus-1552_absence_cassius-and-brutus-were-the-more-disting_1421545.jpg)
![“[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.” quote by Errol Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/058/errol-morris-2512_areas_elsa-dorfman-was-well-known-certainly-in_621042.jpg)
