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portrait Quotes and Quotations
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The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. Berenice Abbott | top
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Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. David Amram | top
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I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone. Rene Auberjonois | top
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. Richard Avedon | top
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. Max Beerbohm | top
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt. Henri Cartier-Bresson | top
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Marcus Tullius Cicero | top
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Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus. John Clayton | top
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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 | top
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The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. Jonathan Dimbleby | top
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I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. Lucian Freud | top
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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 | top
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And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. David Hockney | top
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. David Hockney | top
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I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. Howard Hodgkin | top
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I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you. Frida Kahlo | top
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There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. Gustav Klimt | top
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. Annie Leibovitz | top
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. Thomas B. Macaulay | top
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It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. Dolley Madison | top
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. Edvard Munch | top
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. Galen Rowell | top
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. Rita Rudner | top
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage. Michael Shermer | top
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. Meryl Streep | top
