List Of Portraits Quotes

A Person Himself Believes That All The Other Portraits Are Good Likenesses Except The One Of Himself.

When I Paint A Person, His Enemies Always Find The Portrait A Good Likeness.

[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.

There's A Discipline. When You Take Someone's Portrait, You Don't Have To Take 50 Photographs, Just Find That One So That When You Release The Shutter, That's The Image That You Took.

When One Starts From A Portrait And Seeks By Successive Eliminations To Find Pure Form... One Inevitably Ends Up With An Egg.

Perhaps I Have Not Lined His Portrait Too Clearly. But If He Exists, If Only For The Reason That I Have Imagined Him To Be. He Came From The Blue And Returns To The Blue. He Has Not Perished, He Is Not Lost. Neither Will He Be Forgotten.

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.

In Front Of The Model I Work With The Same Will To Reproduce Truth As If I Were Making A Portrait. I Do Not Correct Nature, I Incorporate Myself Into It; It Directs Me. I Can Only Work With A Model. The Sight Of Human Forms Nourishes And Comforts Me.

When You Start With A Portrait And Try To Find Pure Form By Abstracting More And More, You Must End Up With An Egg.

I Do Portraits. I Usually Do Live Models In A Class Environment, But I've Been Painting At Home More. I Really Love The Human Form, And I Love Faces. I've Tried To Do Landscapes A Few Times.

Eloquence Is A Painting Of Thought; And Thus Those Who, After Having Painted It, Add Something More, Make A Picture Instead Of A Portrait.

I Like A&e. I Like Those Corny Intimate-portrait Things. They're So Kind Of Ingenious And Artificial And Soothing.