Portraits Quotes - Page 19

• I love signing autographs! Sometimes, when people ask me for one, I keep the photo for myself and frame it. It's a Win-Win situation really; I get an extra 25 dollars in my pocket AND another portrait for my bedroom.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, People, Pockets

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• A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom - These are few.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Karma, Children, Men

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• Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.

  Hank Stuever

  Curious

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• The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.

  Richard Selzer

  Country, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!

  Gene Sarazen

  Golf, World, Imagine

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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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• 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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• 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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• In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Photography, Artist, Craftsman

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• I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another.

  Ben Maddow

  Taken, Whales, Elephants

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• I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Beach, Self, Moments

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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