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#portraits

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #portraits




I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.


Howard Hodgkin


#artists #envious #few #good #i

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.


Robert Mapplethorpe


#money #paint #people #photography #portraits

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.


Erica Jong


#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.


Rita Rudner


#cosmetic #doctor #full #going #i

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#caricature #mixture #portraits #slight #those

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

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

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.


LeRoy Neiman


#been #big #big band #biggest #completed

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.


Richard Avedon


#art #inaacuracy #perspective #photography #portraits

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.


Abraham Lincoln


#photography #portraits #beauty






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