Portraits Quotes - Page 25

• A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Faces, Painting

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• Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s split into quadrants and there’s four heads, basically—portraits of people. We’ve actually often thought and freaked out, what if something happened to Charles Burns? Because he’s so identified with the cover of our magazine, I don’t know what we would do if anything happened to Charles Burns.

  Heidi Julavits

  Artist, People, What If

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• Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

  Judy Dater

  Reflection, Past, Done

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• What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.

  Ben Brantley

  Team, Love Life, Simple

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• In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Humility, Humility And Modesty, Surround

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• The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Long, Littles, Temples

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 20, 1799.

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• For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only be beautiful now but also in 20 years, and keep the wardrobe color palette similar so it looks like the group shot was well planned.

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Beautiful, Color, Years

  "Fashion Police Star George Kotsiopoulos Talks Best Holiday and Winter Trends". Interview with Chrissy Lorenzo, www.justluxe.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

  Grimes

  Humanity, The End Of The Day, Landscape

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• The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Unhappy, Sunflower, Dawn

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• None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Jobs, Faces, Tough

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• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Machines, Eras

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• As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Jesus, Writing, Swings

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• The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

  Rebecca West

  Successful, Giving, World

  Rebecca West (2014). “Henry James: A Critical Biography”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Taking Pictures, Natural, Scenery

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• I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Portraiture, Care, Paint

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• What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.

  George Scialabba

  Moving, Character, Ideas

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