Portraits Quotes · Page 8

It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way…

— Steven Spielberg

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

— Giorgio Armani

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

— Joyce Maynard

It's shot by Ben Rayner who I think is very talented at doing portrait photography as well as fashion photography. His images…

— Alexa Chung

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Johnson

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not…

— Gena Showalter

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning…

— Gustav Klimt

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps…

— Warsan Shire

Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on…

— Paul Walker

Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the…

— Don DeLillo

Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain…

— Joseph Brodsky

I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant…

— Nick Brandt

Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch…

— Stuart Pearson Wright

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be…

— Richard Avedon

I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual…

— Harold Bloom

If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any…

— Bill Gates

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

— Gustav Klimt

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I…

— Cindy Sherman

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

— Juvenal

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you…

— Mark Kurlansky

On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on…

— Gustave Courbet