There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second — Charles Tomlinson Copy Share Image
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
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you. — John Currin Copy Share Image
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? — John Adams Copy Share Image
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits,… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait. — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective… — Meera Menon 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
I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting -… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
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