#portrait

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

#been #bouncing #challenge #city #first

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#clinton #first #hanging #her #hillary

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

#controlled #disabilities #drove #faces #fact

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#portrait #art

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

#created #great #i #inspired #intimate

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. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#books #burn #curious #draw #father

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#chooses #composition #course #devoid #emotions

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

#cemetery #gallery #i #living #metropolitan

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#gentlemen #hands #keeping #placed #portrait

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#course #faces #history #portraits #turning