Portraiture Quotes - Page 5

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

  Francis Bacon

  Self, Portraits, Done

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• If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

  Francis Bacon

  People, Looks, Because I Can

  Francis Bacon (2005). “Francis Bacon: portraits and heads”, Natl Galleries of Scotland

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• I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of identifying yourself, you're using others to get to that point. And so you're parsing out different aspects of different people in the world. You're choosing not only from America but increasingly globally different aspects of what's out there.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Thinking, America

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Strong, Ideas, Essentials

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Games, Historical, Way

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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