Portraits Quotes

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.

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

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

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

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

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

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

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

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

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

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

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.

I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot - and I thought, "Oh, that's like a family portrait right there."

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.

Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

[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.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

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.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.