#portrait

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#even #fascinated #funnier #her #i

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#i #me #more #people #photograph

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. ↗

— David Bailey

#fashion #i #i tried #pictures #portraits

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#having #i #like #look #people

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. ↗

— Billy Hughes

#i #justice #mercy #painted #portrait

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#be true #demand #detail #fit #homogeneity

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #architecture #else #every #himself

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#clear #egg #finishes #following #form

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. ↗

— Robert Ryan

#attention #bringing #character #concentrate #eyes

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#face #fall #him #his #impossible