Sitter Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.
— Henny Youngman
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I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the…
— Yousuf Karsh
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I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being…
— Lucian Freud
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I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
— Lucian Freud
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All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them.…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal…
— William Rothenstein
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Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important…
— Pepper Schwartz
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The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
— Chuck Close
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
— Umberto Boccioni
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You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface…
— Richard Avedon
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I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just…
— Martha Plimpton
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TV is not a baby sitter.
— Luis Guzman
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As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great…
— James Whistler
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A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
— Alvin Langdon Coburn
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Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to…
— Kathy Griffin
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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to…
— Eminem
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to…
— Patricia Heaton
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My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the…
— Sarah Jessica Parker
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As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.
— Eli Roth
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