Human beings Quote by Gisele Freund Download Open image “When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.” — Gisele Freund ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human beings Humans Painting Portraits
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph. — Lotte Jacobi Copy Share Image
Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality.… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture. — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
