Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Alfred Stieglitz

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.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Anatole Broyard

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

Robert Harris

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

Tommy Lasorda

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

Roland Barthes

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

Michael Faraday

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

Mary Ellen Mark

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.

Jean Cocteau

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

George Eliot

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

Ira Glass

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Mark Gatiss

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Mary-Louise Parker

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

Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Helmut Newton

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.

Lucian Freud

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Minor White

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Maria Shriver

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

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Robert Rauschenberg

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

Sarah Ruhl

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.

Robert Hughes

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

Yousuf Karsh

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.