Quotes of: Portraits Keyword

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

The Sandman: Endless Nights

Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?

Portrait in Death

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

Jacob Epstein

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

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

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.

Lewis H. Lapham

Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks

I'll Give You the Sun

...Me voy tranquilo, Tao,porque nadie podría cuidar a mi hija Eliza mejor que usted. -Nadie podría amarla mas que yo,señor.

Portrait in Sepia

Dr. Gonzo: Lucy is an artist. Lucy paints portraits of Barbara Streisand.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anthony Powell

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Gabriel Lippmann

His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin. He had emerged from a two years' spell of revery to find himself in the mi...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it wa...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

What is this life so full of care, We don't have time to stand and stare.

The Collected Poems of William H. Davies; With a Portrait

Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

The History of History

Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

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