Portraits Quotes - Page 11

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

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.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.

A remarkably revealing portrait.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

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

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.