Sitter Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food. — Henny Youngman
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
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
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. — Lucian Freud
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
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
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
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
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
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni
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
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
TV is not a baby sitter. — Luis Guzman
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
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. — Alvin Langdon Coburn
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
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
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
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
As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge. — Eli Roth

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