Could Quote by Laurie Simmons Download Open image “I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.” — Laurie Simmons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Could Done Never Predicted Something
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me. — Judy Dater 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
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying, "Did you… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all is said… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I remember years ago hearing a gynecologist say, "Women report a great sense of calm and well-being post-menopause." This was way before I was… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Your ringtone is so personal to you, but the fact is millions of other people have your ringtone. I really love that connection, and… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Here were also moments of, you know, you have an exhibition: no sale, no reviews. It's hard not to get blue, and I think… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.' — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a doll face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
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I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I never want to look back on any moment and say I could have done more. So I go all in. — Scott Haze Copy Share Image
Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
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What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years. — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image