Portraits Quotes - Page 12

• A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.

  Ilya Kabakov

  Art, Etc, Unions

  "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.

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• I'm that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am a massive fan. I think I'm Dorothy. She's my favorite.

  Sara Bareilles

  Girl, Thinking, Dvds

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

  Brice Marden

  Artist, Trying, Asian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

  Alice Sebold

  Comforting, Remember, Happy Endings

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• I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

  David Caruso

  Art, Years, Two

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• I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

  Eddie Murphy

  Home, Night, Tvs

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• I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun.
  You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.

  Howard Stern

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

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• I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

  Lee Iacocca

  Good Friend, Painting, Heard

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• A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Views, Choices, Events

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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• I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents will never show up. That would mess up the fun. I do, however, very much like Kate's idea of having Tony [Fucile] draw their portraits.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Fun, Guarantees That

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.

  Hisham Matar

  Men, Justice, Doubt

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• We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Wall, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into the center of grand events. Meticulously-researched, this engrossing novel offers a fresh portrait of a queen who has too often been portrayed as a villain. Bravo Mr. Gortner!

  Sandra Gulland

  Queens, Passion, Epic

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• In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Air, Grace, Add

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.83

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• From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

  Lord Byron

  Spring, Home, Heart

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• Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

  Brenda Peterson

  Web Of Life, Vision, World

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• A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

  Philippe Halsman

  Temptation, Too Much, Individual

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• With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Intelligent, Men

  "The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman".

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• Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

  Daniel Gilbert

  Artist, Hands, Perception

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.85, Vintage

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• Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  Irving Penn

  Responsibility, Kansas, Interesting

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• Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Self Esteem, Style, Patient

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• The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Want, Gaps

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• [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspiration, Communication, Past

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• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Memories, Thinking

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