Beings Quote by Gisele Freund

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

— Howard Hodgkin

“We are human beings. We make gods and do battle with them and they bless us.”

— Hermann Hesse

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

— Nan Fairbrother

Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I…

— Mary Lee Settle

There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying. What I…

— Bob Brown

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious.…

— Henry Miller

“But shitty human beings sometimes make great art.”

— Jerry Heller

At the end of the day, human beings make mistakes.

— Mahesh Bhatt

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

— Robin DiAngelo

You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

— Nick Brandt

The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant…

— Lewis H. Lapham

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe