There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only… — Philippe Halsman 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
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of… — Kehinde Wiley 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
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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
“Tyree was a dreamer who painted idealized women in idyllic South Pacific landscapes, the faces of wizened island men and later exotic… — C.J. Cook Copy Share Image
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling… — Roman Genn Copy Share Image
And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen.… — Jerusha Hess 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
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject.… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
![“And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen. It's been used in many films, but not in its entirety and we shot the inside and the outside and used every nook and cranny. The inside is very gaudy. It's a…” quote by Jerusha Hess](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa3/jerusha-hess-33292_austen_and-there-s-even-a-lord-named-lord-dashw_3063696.jpg)
