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“I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just looked in the mirror and saw that I had drawn a nice mural on my back. It looks kind of like a map of Wyoming, with all the rivers and mountain ranges, or maybe a portrait of Bob Marley. Yes. Tablature”

Looks Kind Five Saws Nice Minutes Mountain Sitting Rivers Mirrors Range Shirts Maps Pens Bob Portraits Five Minutes Wyoming Marley Mountain Ranges Mural Rivers And Mountains

Author:Jade Puget

“When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but I'm actually a very skilled artist. That's why I released a Jack Nicholson portrait right after that that was very detailed in the face to show my skills.”

People Firsts Said Character Shows Faces Artist Guy Can Do Painting Skills Criticism Portraits Cartoon Monopoly Nicholson Cartoon Character

Author:Alec Monopoly

“Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”

Self Portraits Diaries Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.”

Self Huge Draws Portraits Caricatures Self Portrait

Author:Rolf Harris

“[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.”

Thinking Knows Writing Made Theory Academic Portraits Caricatures

Author:Umberto Eco

“To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.”

Persons Stills Demand Portraits Motion Pictures

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.”

Art Shows Remember Artist Night Pops Portraits Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Pop Art

Author:Joe Piscopo

“In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.”

Trying Expression Portraits Fleeting Snapshots Vivacity

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“The most adorable thing about Toronto is that she remains fiercely aloof and indifferent to the fads and entrepreneurial fevers of her lovers. She is intractably herself, admissive to the most vagrant, sober in a way that gets misinterpreted as stodginess. Her generosity extends to the meek as well as the gold diggers. Mercifully, she doesn't give a hoot about our portraits of her, but just waits, patiently, for our affection and citizenship.”

“With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.”

Looks Done Able Taken Portraits Being Done Daguerreotypes

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom.”

Art School Enjoy Black Color Traditional Etc Customs Gray Realistic Portraits Specialty Ultras

Author:William Webb

“Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.”

People Giving Body Faces Choices Attitude Expression Familiar Typical Portraits

Book:Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas

Source: Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas

“Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.”

Sometimes Mother Pleasure Portraits Spit

Author:Salvador Dali

“My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.”

Persons Real Whole Beautiful Black White Special Mom Scene My Friends Cameras Photographer My Mom Eras Punk Black And White Portraits Manuals Baltimore Canon Special Times

Author:Jeff Vespa

“Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!”

World Stills Moments Imagine Heard Masters Shots Golf Around The World Imagine That Portraits

Author:Gene Sarazen

“It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman - for God is Love.Why should we start thinking of a god up in the clouds with wings, if He dwells within us in the spirit of Love?!”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Made Self Spirit Men And Women Wings Clouds Portraits God Is Love Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“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 . . .”

People Thinking Known Elements Landscape Portraits

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.”

People Ideas Faces Portraits

Author:Andy Warhol

“As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?”

Heart Soul Reality Artist Violence Blessing Protect Connections Misery Multiple Reporters Portraits Consolation Psychiatrist Intricate Reassurance Assembling

Author:Russell Sherman

“I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits but not in a picturesque, hip way, they're really, really kids that are not entirely great.”

Way Kind Ideas Kids Perfect Creating Hips Portraits Misfits Picturesque

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“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.”

Needs Should Able Forget Audience Minutes Scene Impression Lasting Portraits Forget You

Author:Chris Bauer

“At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.”

Giving Portraits Diaries One Sided

Author:Leonard Woolf

“I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.”

Done Together Mother Style Chef Portraits Icons

Author:Joe Bastianich

“I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)”

People Soul Self Care My Own Photograph Appearance My Soul Portraits Self Portrait

Author:August Strindberg

“Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.”

Men Bears Limits Mad Portraits

Author:Paul Valery

“I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.”

Country Bigs Care Political Politics Names Type Office Library Don't Care I Don't Care Governors Portraits

Author:George Carlin

“If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.”

Ifs Able House Millions Painting Screens Presidential Sunset Guests Airplane Portraits Stamps Renaissance Reproduction Skiers Painting A Picture

Author:Bill Gates

“Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.”

“Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?”

Knows Artist President Police Formal Portraits Did You Know

Author:Johnny Carson

“Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.”

People Knows Character Might Lying Fronts Cameras Lifetime Insight Insult Know Me Portraits Wrinkles

Author:Duane Michals

“A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.”

Facts Opinion Occasions Portraits

Author:Richard Avedon

“In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.”

Behinds Portraits

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.”

Knows Art Moments Speak Cameras Excellent Gentleman Portraits

Author:Tristan Tzara

“There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.”

Persons Real Subjects Comfortable Photographer Myth Relax Portraits Real Person

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.”

Ifs Portraits

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.”

Ifs Said Subjects Effects Pure Photography Absolutes Mirrors Starting Psychological Principal Portraits Starting Point Absolute Truth

Author:August Sander

“I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another.”

Ifs Feels Certain Felt Taken Photograph Solitary Portraits Elephants Apes Whales Mammals

Author:Ben Maddow

“I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.”

Self Moments Felt Beach That Moment Portraits Self Portrait

Author:Rineke Dijkstra

“The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.”

Knows Years Self Bigs Can Do Know How Five Offers Opening Eras Five Years Portraits Five Year Olds Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Author:Lucas Samaras

“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.”

Ifs Body Faces Expression Response Portraits Viewers

Author:Charis Wilson

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

Artist Photography Portraits Craftsman Portrait Photography

Author:Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

“Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.”

Giving Mean Next Nations Style Expression Type Periods Intellectual Architecture Characteristics Portraits Severe Testimony Eloquent Epoch

Author:Peter Behrens

“Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for.”

People Trying Has Beens Jobs Faces Felt Loss Findings Shots Surprise Disappointment Divorce Portraits Disillusioned Job Loss

Author:Tina Barney

“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].”

Thinking Wells Able Cameras Portraits

Author:Dawoud Bey

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

Done Past Reflection Portraits

Author:Judy Dater

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

Humans Human Beings Portraits

Author:Gisele Freund

“Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff for a long time - and he said, Greg, I want to look like a high-profile celebrity, living on the edge. I think that says it all.”

Thinking Want Looks Long Said Known Long Time Edges Portraits 80s Living On Profile Bowie High Profile Living On The Edge

Author:Greg Gorman

“I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.”

Thinking Way Believe Difficult Effort Cameras Despite Vulnerable One Way Vulnerability Portraits Indication Presenting Best Effort

Author:Katy Grannan

“Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.”

Country House Greater Subjects Taste Photography Hills Charm Proportion Portraits Strengthening Portrait Photography

Author:William Henry Jackson

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