#portraits

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#closed #firmly #great #i #mouth

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#caricature #mixture #portraits #slight #those

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

— Richard Avedon

#i #me #more #people #photograph

... she suddenly looks different to Olympia, physically different, as though a portrait has been alterred. And Olympia thinks that possibly such adjustments might have to be made for everyone she knows. Upon meeting a person, a sketch is formed, and for the life of the relationship, however intimate or not, a portrait is painted, with oils or pastels or with black ink or with watercolor, and only at a persons's death can the portraits be considered finished. Perhaps not even at the person's death. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#death

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#i #interested #literary #loved #many

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

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

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

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