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I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.
You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.
My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.