Portraits Quotes - Page 10

• I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.

  Vladimir Putin

  Beautiful, Very Beautiful

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Home, Thoughtful

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything to today's discussion are the insights into the Biblical texts that are contained in his lectures and books. They include Messengers of God [1976], Five Biblical Portraits [1978] and his just-published Wise Men and Their Tales - Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic Masters.

  Hershel Shanks

  Wise, Book, Biblical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Thinking, Want, Hong Kong

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Enlightening, Moments

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fun, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Eliza Borné, bookpage.com. September 2010.

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• If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

  Garry Winogrand

  Book, Thinking, Looks

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• Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."

  Whitney Otto

  Successful, Men, Personality

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• What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make it weird, just make it dead straight," but it's still weird. I don't know why. I guess it's just the way I see things.

  Nigel Cooke

  Way, Strange, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

  Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

  Film, Complexes

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Street," "Wolf of Wall Street," "Arbitrage" - etc. was beyond exciting for me. It felt downright necessary. And I felt really inspired by Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas' agenda in telling these types of unique, feminist stories. [Both of them produced and acted in "Equity."]

  Meera Menon

  Wall, Unique, Views

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.

  Nan Goldin

  Self, Order, Giving

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mean, Thinking, Self

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Perfection, Anxiety

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood sport.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Sports, Blood, Shining

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• [Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

  Errol Morris

  Boston, Wife, Elsa

  Source: collider.com

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• I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Despair, Use

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• I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.

  Stephanie Szostak

  Art, Couple, Husband

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• When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

  Wallace Shawn

  Beautiful, Play, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Struggle, Odds

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Gifted Writers, Thieves

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• Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.

  Don DeLillo

  Powerful, Mean, Past

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.

  David Levithan

  Real, Character, Humanity

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• When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.

  Andy Warhol

  Self, Pimples, Looks

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

  Richie Havens

  Couple, Guitar, Years

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