Portraits Quotes - Page 8

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.

In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

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.

If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.

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.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

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