Portraits Quotes

• When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Eggs

• My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

  

  Wong Kar-wai
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Realistic

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

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Woman
  • Uncomfortable
  • Intimate

• I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Art
  • Home
  • Bigs

• The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

  

  Agnes Varda
  • World
  • Mirror
  • Self

• If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes your feelings toward someone whose work has imprinted itself on your mind--if you see a photograph and say, 'Yes, this is the person,' with a little new insight--that is a beautiful experience.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Success
  • Subjects
  • Likeness

• 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 . .

  

  Ari Marcopoulos
  • People
  • Work
  • Portraits

• Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Chemistry
  • Electricity
  • Portraits

• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Computer
  • Machines
  • Archeology

• When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
  • Book
  • Shows

• Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike.

  

  Dale Purves
  • Remarkable
  • Professionals
  • Alike

• I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Office
  • Saint
  • Saint Thomas

• Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sunshine
  • Portraits
  • Vest

• [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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  August Sander
  • Photography
  • Mirrors
  • Psychological

• I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Images
  • Portraits
  • Coagulate

• The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • Life is
  • Pictures

• 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
  • Real
  • Children
  • Eyes

• I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Models
  • Photographs
  • Portraits

• (Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

  

  Wyndham Lewis
  • Painting
  • Toronto
  • Methodists

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

  

  Erica Jong
  • Mother
  • Aunt
  • Grandfather

• As the search continues for an understanding of the archetypal images, Jung would probably have us remember that an archetype is a hypothetical model, something like the 'pattern of behaviour' in biology. The portraits of the Goddesses in patriarchal mythology are, indeed, patterns of behaviour: They are stories told by men of how women react under patriarchy.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Patterns
  • Mythology
  • Behaviour

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