40 Portraits Quotes for You to Enjoy

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. Rita Rudner

Doctor Cosmetic Picasso Until Surgery Office Going Noticed Full Medical Portraits

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe. Amy Sherald

Space Blackness Where Want Breathe Create Portraits

Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance? Arthur Quiller-Couch

Great You College Sit Young Down Other Gaze Feast Great Ones Lift Look Match Halls Up Hearts Manhood While Avail Persuade Your Inheritance Serene Brief Portraits

I really respect fashion, but I don't follow trends to be honest, I'm much more into skateboarder style clothes, but I really like fashion photography, portraits, and stuff like that. Brooklyn Beckham

Fashion Respect Photography Style Clothes To Be Honest Trends Follow More Stuff Like Skateboarder Much Really Portraits Honest

I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked. Cary Fukunaga

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place. Chuck Close

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. David Bailey

Fashion Try Girl Tried Wearing Dresses Pictures Portraits

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are. Duane Michals

Nature People Impossible Challenge Think Hundreds Though Find Never Like Know Look Terrific Because Deals Still Doing Questioning Very Done Stopped Them Really Appearances Even Believed Portraits

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. Edvard Munch

Good Other Except Himself Person Believes Portraits

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. Ellen DeGeneres

You People Old Sold Collect Kind Folded Wearing Someone Something Guy He Pictures Like Know Looks Arms Him Insurance Got Were His Wonder Wondering Just Just Kind Interesting Who Painted Why Portraits Suit

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. Erica Jong

Mother Living Too Aunt Grandfather Worked Painted Portraits

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

World Reading Took Always Literary Loved Interested Many Portraits

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

Natural Too Scenery Taking Pictures Like Doing Really Things Portraits

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. Gertrude Stein

Great Closed Mouth Writers Firmly Always Really Noticed Portraits

I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure. Hilton Als

Me Painting Think Collaborative Something More Colors Exchange Generally Abstraction Feel Feels Like Sure Always Subject Than Sitter Often Just Whereas Interested Aspect Connected Portraits

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid! Jemima Kirke

You People Guess Unless Pleased Way Kid Fine Look Always Which Your Paint Paintings Portraits Buying

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual. Kehinde Wiley

About Individual Revealing Aspects Portraits

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time. Kehinde Wiley

Work Time People Black Early Work Those See Brown Perceived Investigation Simply Over How Been Really Many Portraits Early

My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals. Keith Hernandez

Art Mom Family Father Met Side Our Ran Francisco Minor Minor League Firefighter He League Also Houston Amateur His Affiliated Louis St. Louis Artist San San Francisco Which Spain Team Painted Deep Dad Baseball Originated Cardinals Played Portraits

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis. LeRoy Neiman

Life Big Band Few Jazz Stars Difficult Saw Completed Favorite Recognizable Has-Been Possibly Onto Knew Perform Feet Big Band Been Current Size Hold Biggest Measures Many Paintings Nearly Portraits

In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still. Margaret Keane

Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing very unflattering official portraits of her, or some doubtful busts, which may be of other women imitating her coiffure. Michael Korda

Women Coins Other Imitating Indeed Some About Struck Only Bearing Cleopatra Know She How Very Official May Either Which Little Doubtful Measure Her Portraits Images

I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction. Pat Barker

Life Class Mind Perception Finished Thinking Changed Soldiers Characters Reconstruction Facial Area Unresolved Had Also Became Lot Left Conflicts Interested Them Sequel Whole Portraits

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