Portraits Quotes - Page 9

• But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

  Tristan Tzara

  Art, Gentleman, Cameras

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• There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Real, Relax, Photographer

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• It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

  Helmut Newton

  Scandalous

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• My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.

  Carol Friedman

  Albums, Kind, Sometimes

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

  Joe Piscopo

  Art, Night, Remember

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• To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Demand, Motion Pictures, Persons

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• I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

  Francis Bacon

  Self, Portraiture, Done

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• You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

  Kenneth Clark

  Vanity, Ideas, Suffering

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• Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

  Edward Young

  Death, Tyrants, Sat

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• I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dog, I Love My Dog, Love My Dog

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.

  Cameron Crowe

  Artist, People, Interesting

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2011.

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• The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

  Agnes Varda

  Mirrors, Self, Needs

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

  Agnes Varda

  Mirrors, Self, Tools

  Interview with Liza Bear, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• By giving our audience intimate access to the lives of musicians, we hope to raise awareness of the region's beautiful cultural heritage and present a more nuanced portrait of its people.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Beautiful, People, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.

  Fisher Ames

  Passion, Men, People

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.393, Burt Franklin

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• Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.

  DJ Spooky

  Ice, Symphony, Acoustics

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people in the North who actually felt we should just let the South be the South. Because the way it is now, it seems like we have this portrait where everybody in Georgia hated Yankees and everybody in the North was enlightened. That wouldn't seem as clear cut as it does now.

  Chuck Klosterman

  War, Cutting, Yankees

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Horse, Past, Reality

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• It's shot by Ben Rayner who I think is very talented at doing portrait photography as well as fashion photography. His images never look like a model. You know, it doesn't look like a faceless model just wearing whatever. There's always personality that comes through. That was quite important for me to capture.

  Alexa Chung

  Photography, Fashion, Thinking

  "Alexa Chung Wants to Bring Uggs Back, 2002 Style". Interview with Nikki Ogunnaike, www.elle.com. October 7, 2016.

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• Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Self, Years

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

  Michael Snow

  Done, Might, Faces

  Source: offscreen.com

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• My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

  Cary Elwes

  Father, Real, Kids

  "Cary Elwes: Battle Of Wits". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. November 18, 2016.

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• Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Self, Done, Literature

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe what they see is real, even with the [filters]. And God bless them! But to me, it's not a self-portrait, it's a reality project.

  Alex Katz

  Real, Believe, Self

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.

  Ryan McGinley

  Wall, College, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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