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I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of… — Nick Carter
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles
At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships.… — Ralph Steadman
An important documentary that sheds light on one of the most terrifying realities in the U.S. today—the commercial sexual exploitation of young girls. TRICKED is… — Rachel Lloyd
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit… — Nii Parkes
The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history. — Maria Shriver
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach. — Unknown Author
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the… — Unknown Author
It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and… — M. William Phelps
Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans… — Brenda Peterson
So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right… — Imogen Cunningham
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer… — Paul Strand
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face,… — Plutarch
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future. — Erwin McManus
Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it… — Sally Mann
Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,… — N.D. Wilson
Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances. — Alexander Rodchenko
My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and… — Dana Schutz
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change… — Nan Goldin
Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits. — Richard Zimler
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or… — Jay McInerney
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice… — Imogen Cunningham
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face… — Chuck Close
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this,… — George Eliot
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… — Honore de Balzac

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