#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

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

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#course #faces #history #portraits #turning

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

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house. ↗

— Willa Ford

#house #i #i do #paint #portraits

... 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 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

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#artists #envious #few #good #i

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#except #good #himself #other #person