Portraits Quotes - Page 24

• I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of me. I believe that being that close to the animal makes a huge difference in the photographers ability to reveal its personality. You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

  Nick Brandt

  Real, Believe, Moving

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• I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Envious, Stills

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• Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund kids, co-opted flags, gubernatorial portraits, art in second-tier cities, and Upper Midwestern esoterica, brim with both wit and humor.

  Joe Meno

  Art, Kids, Unique

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• Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

  Oliver Sacks

  Book, Hopeful, Brain

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• I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

  Mark Gatiss

  Gallery

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• I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Differences, Gertrude

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.2098, e-artnow

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• A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right.

  James A. Baldwin

  Reality, Risk, Gertrude

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• The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

  Berenice Abbott

  Cities, Challenges, Balls

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Art, Fascination

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Country, Fighting, Years

  "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Enemy, Paint

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• One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I do, the portrait, the landscapes, or any interest that I have. Things are good enough as they are, there's no reason to tamper with them.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Hands, Feelings, Landscape

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• In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  Irving Penn

  Photography, Lying, Believe

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• If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Character, Names, People

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• Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

  Minor White

  Photographer, Brooms, Come Up

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• What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

  Jason Reitman

  Air, Film, Feels

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• Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

  Michael Cadnum

  School, Ironic, Breezy

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• Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

  Igor Babailov

  People, Ego, Creation

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• Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.

  Igor Babailov

  Character, Artist, Creating

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• The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

  Aldo Leopold

  Landscape, Owners, Farms

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.24, Island Press

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• Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Intelligent, Play, Long

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.51, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Character, Years, Anxiety

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

  Kai Greene

  Art, Bodybuilding, Self

  FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Jul 26, 2011

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• At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

  Eleanor Clift

  White, House, Presidential

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• When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eggs, Trying, Ends

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