Portraits Quotes - Page 18

• My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.

  Jeff Vespa

  Beautiful, Mom, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Couple, Moving

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.219, Arcturus Publishing

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• Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

  Edgar Degas

  Attitude, Expression, People

  Edgar Degas, Daniel Catton Rich (197?). “Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas”, ABRAMS

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• I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom.

  William Webb

  Art, School, Color

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• Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Photography, Style, Magazines

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• I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

  Henri Matisse

  Eye, Expression, Imagination

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• [In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Thinking, Academic

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• OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Love You, Writing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.913, Delphi Classics

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• Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

  John Adams

  Strong, Pain, Men

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.217

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• Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

  Anthony Powell

  Process, Sat, Persons

  Anthony Powell (2005). “Some Poets, Artists & 'A Reference for Mellors'”, p.251, Timewell Press

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• It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman - for God is Love.Why should we start thinking of a god up in the clouds with wings, if He dwells within us in the spirit of Love?!

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Men, Thinking, Clouds

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• I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Thinking, People, Elements

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

  George Carlin

  Country, Names, Office

  "George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya!", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Mad, Limits

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• It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Profound, Driving, Eating

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.150, Vintage

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• I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

  Joe Bastianich

  Mother, Icons, Style

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• At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

  Leonard Woolf

  Giving, Diaries, One Sided

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• You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.

  Chris Bauer

  Able, Needs, Forget

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Kids, Ideas, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?

  Russell Sherman

  Heart, Reality, Artist

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• I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

  Andy Warhol

  Ideas, People, Faces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

  Robert Hughes

  Trout, Rubens, Crucifixion

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• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Men, Thinking

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Play, Rabbits, Stuff

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