#portrait

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#become #cartoon #first #i #idea

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#bottom #detailed #happening #how #i

You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists. For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich may be the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with ever modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting. And, finally, it is your own face that you are staring at in terror, as in a mirror by candlelight, when all the house is still. ↗

— Hope Mirrlees

#faces #friendship #portraiture #when-all-the-house-is-still #friendship

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#pictures #portrait #resemble #true-to-life #life

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#man #manners #mirror #portrait #shows

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was. ↗

— Philippe Halsman

#how #human #human being #hundred #kind

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#definitely #did #him #i #less

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

#image #literally #may #point #point of view

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#get #good #i #interesting #mark

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

#continue #exposure #fifteen #fifteen minutes #first