Portraits Quotes

341 quotes by 261 authors

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as… — Jane Campion
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of… — Chuck Close
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking… — Marina Abramovic
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but… — Lewis H. Lapham
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that… — Michael Faraday
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these… — Georg Baselitz
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. — Robert Mapplethorpe
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. — Richard Avedon
If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes… — Yousuf Karsh
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott

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