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That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost… — Francesco Clemente
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable… — Napoleon Bonaparte
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of… — Richard Schmid
I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures… — Emily Dickinson
I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics. — Oliver Jeffers
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make… — Burton Silverman
I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this and that, I… — Joe Fafard
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. — Alvin Langdon Coburn
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his… — Mel Gussow
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. — Georgia May Jagger
Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so… — Heidi Julavits
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces. — Christian Nestell Bovee
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair… — Thomas Frank
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like… — Ellie Goulding
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. — Salvador Dali
I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's… — Ellen DeGeneres
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. — Charles Dickens
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening. — Vera Farmiga
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait… — Harvey Fierstein

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