Absurd Quote by Willem de Kooning

If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it,…

— Willem de Kooning

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

— J. K. Rowling

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

— Sally Phillips

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

— Alice Walker

In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel…

— Ken Kalfus

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more…

— Edouard Manet

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

— Pablo Picasso

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

— Charles Baudelaire

The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter…

— Walter J. Phillips

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible,…

— Martin Schoeller

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

— Nathan Oliveira