96 Portrait Quotes for You to Enjoy

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. John Van Hamersveld

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I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper portrait. I wouldn't dream of doing something inappropriate for that person. I guess I make the person comfortable around me. Juergen Teller

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element. Juergen Teller

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. Karl Lagerfeld

First Become Cartoon Idea Artist Wanted Illustrator Portrait

The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset. Kehinde Wiley

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Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle America stagnates and the gap between the richest and the poorest grows ever wider. That portrait of the country is wrong. Kevin Hassett

Today Country Living Earner Economic Economic Growth Wrong Between Hear America Middle While Gains Poor Poorest Richest Standard Gap Ever Grows Growth Portrait Wider

Sherlock is a portrait of humanity - he takes nature's gift of thought and runs with it, bringing along all the human struggles, fears, and insecurities. He's the hero we could see ourselves being. Kyle Hill

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. Meryl Streep

You Together Random Progression Strings Take Roles Process Actor Portrait

In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy. Michael Dirda

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In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms. Nigel Hamilton

Myself Youth Parents Trouble Rose Reckless Had Joseph Almost Highly Terms Because Gotten His Years Years Ago Fitzgerald Which Twenty Publishing Portrait Kennedy Kennedys

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

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. Pedro Almodovar

Love Mother Other Though More Idealized Qualities Make Than Want Fascinated Even Her Portrait Defects Funnier

For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is. Peter Lindbergh

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I first thought about doing a project about Anna Wintour and 'Vogue' when I read an article in 'New York Magazine' about the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ball, the annual fundraising gala that Anna oversees. It created such a fascinating portrait that I couldn't help but be compelled. R. J. Cutler

Thought First Project Magazine About Vogue Costume Anna New Institute Annual Read Ball Doing Metropolitan Article York New York Created Help Fascinating Compelled Portrait Fundraising Museum

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family. Rachel Griffiths

Good Family Marriage Partner Other Supports Greater Greater Good How Which Whilst Interesting Exploring Notions Found Portrait

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. Richard Avedon

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I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait. Richard Greenberg

Past Think Changes Slower Rate More Still Little Portrait

Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War. Richard Norton Smith

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I grew up listening to a lot of early '90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.'s 'The Portrait of a Masterpiece' was something that had a big influence on me. Riz Ahmed

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music. Ro James

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