I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors,… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing… — Burton Silverman 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
Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the… — David Hockney 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
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