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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
Author:
William Yeats
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.
Author:
Robert Ryan
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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.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
Author:
Lewis Lapham
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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.
Author:
Gustav Klimt
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If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.
Author:
Lynn Johnston
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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.
Author:
Billy Joel
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I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
Author:
Howard Hodgkin
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
Author:
Fay Godwin
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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.
Author:
Lucian Freud
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I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
Author:
Willa Ford
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
Author:
Imogen Cunningham
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
Author:
Imogen Cunningham
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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.
Author:
Chuck Close
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I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
Author:
Georg Baselitz
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Author:
Richard Avedon
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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.
Author:
David Amram
