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I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.
My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.
I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.