Quotes by Portraits 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. Chris Bauer portraits able needs A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces. Christian Nestell Bovee portraits faces men Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place. Chuck Close portraits recognition firsts 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 portraits photography faces Everything is a self-portrait. Chuck Palahniuk portraits self diaries I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear. Cindy Sherman portraits self looks With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. Clement Greenberg portraiture portraits artist Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. Cleo Moore portraits clothes self A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible. Damian Pettigrew topics portraits assuming My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive. Dana Schutz portraits events alive Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways. Dana Spiotta portraits trying way 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 portraits village black-and-white Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net! David Cobley riding portraits safety 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 portraits levels thinking 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]. Dawoud Bey portraits cameras thinking In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao. Deng Xiaoping mao portraits past Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. Douglas Rushkoff portraits style photography A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. Edvard Munch portraits artist believe When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. Edvard Munch portraits artist enemy Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat. Edward Young portraits tyrants death «1234567891011»