“ I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures. ”
- David Lean- Copy
- 276
“ I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. ”
- Frida Kahlo- Copy
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“ You could call it a collection of self-portraits. Each photographer has really photographed himself. ”
- Isabelle Huppert- Copy
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“ There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3K
“ Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
- 412
“ Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed… ”
- Benjamin Haydon- Copy
- 777
“ I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture… ”
- John Singer Sargent- Copy
- 3.5K
“ What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate. ”
- Dr Edward Mayhew- Copy
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“ A painting… is just one image. It allows you to elaborate, dwell on that one picture, go off on it because no further images are forced upon you. But the motion picture is always changing. So what you have to do is create some kind of eye field, an abstract form in a literal sense that tries to emulate what the brain is perceiving, not what the eye is seeing. ”
- John Leslie- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change — only to give stability to one beautiful moment. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. ”
- Alice Miller- Copy
- 2.5K
“ It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. ”
- Russell Wayne Baker- Copy
- 2.6K
“ You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone. ”
- Brandy Norwood- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
- 1.8K
“ For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. ”
- Werner Herzog- Copy
- 699
“ The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they're gone. ”
- Shelley Winters- Copy
- 3.1K
“ TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. ”
- Peggy Noonan- Copy
- 66
“ Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture. ”
- Demi Moore- Copy
- 2.6K
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