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341 Portraits quotes by 254 unique authors

To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder.… — Victor Skrebneski
I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be… — Bill Brandt
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like… — Vincent Van Gogh
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. — John Singer Sargent
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above… — Gustav Klimt
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening -… — Gustav Klimt
I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm… — Chuck Close
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy.… — Patrick Demarchelier
All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I… — Diana Vreeland
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries,… — Unknown Author
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait… — Joel Meyerowitz
Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the… — Jeremy Larner
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good… — Rachel Griffiths
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to… — Questlove
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find. — Mark Kurlansky
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed.… — Megan Hart
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the… — Unknown Author
I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a Win-Win situation really;… — Zach Braff
When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the… — Erma Bombeck
A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious. — Hank Stuever
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid… — Richard Selzer
A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame. — Wes Fesler

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