Portraits Quotes - Page 25

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Faces, Painting

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

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Portraiture, Care, Paint

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