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I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Artist
Portraits
Warhol
Andy
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
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Painter
Dream
My Own
Portraits
Reality
Surrealist
Painted
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The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.
Jimenez Lai
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Diagrams
House
Portraits
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
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Writer
Literature
Mouths
Portraits
Closed
Firmly
Mouth
Noticed
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A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
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Photographer
Artist
Collaboration
Portraits
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It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.
Ren Ng
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Candid
Difficult
Moving
Portraits
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
Edvard Munch
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Painter
Artist
Believe
Portraits
Believes
Except
Himself
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That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
Francesco Clemente
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Artist
Moments
Portraits
Way
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A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
John Singer Sargent
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Artist
Littles
Mouths
Portraits
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The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
Thomas Struth
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Photographer
Media
Photography
Portraits
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
Fay Godwin
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Photographer
Portraits
Reading
World
Literary
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Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
Oriana Fallaci
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Journalist
Portraits
Portraiture
Want
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What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
Jason Reitman
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Film Director
Air
Film
Portraits
Indicative
Portrait
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I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.
Joe Piscopo
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Comedian
Art
Night
Portraits
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The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
Burton Silverman
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Artist
Portraits
Self
Unique
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I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.
Georgia May Jagger
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Model
Natural
Portraits
Scenery
Taking Pictures
Things
Really
Doing Things Like
Doing
Too
Pictures
Taking
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A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
Robert Hughes
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Art Critic
Portraits
Rubens
Trout
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I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
Toyin Odutola
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Okay
Portraits
Validity
Wall
Portrait
Push
Wanting
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Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
Erwin Mcmanus
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Author
Dream
Portraits
Promise
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I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
Lucian Freud
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Painter
Artist
People
Portraits
Wish
Sitter
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali
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Painter
Art
Smile
Doe
Looks
Paint
Portraits
Portrait
Rather
Subject
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People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Photographer
Paint
People
Photography
Portraits
Waiting
Time Money People
Anymore
Wait
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Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.
Igor Babailov
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Artist
Ego
People
Portraits
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Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
Juvenal
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Poet
Blood
Noble
Portraits
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What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
Gilbert Stuart
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Painter
Peaches
Portraits
Potatoes
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I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
Jacques-Louis David
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Painter
Lying
Portraits
Tyrants
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
Umberto Boccioni
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Painter
Art
Atmosphere
Portraits
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My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
Francesco Clemente
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Artist
Half
Painting
Portraits
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner
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Comedian
Funny
Humor
Medical
Doctors
Office
Portraits
Surgery
Doctor
Full
Cosmetic
Noticed
Picasso
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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Anthony Powell
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Novelist
Persons
Portraits
Process
Sat
Inferior
Portrait
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep
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Actress
Portraits
Process
Progression
Roles
Strings
Together
Actor
Portrait
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All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
Erica Jong
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Author
Aunt
Grandfather
Mother
Portraits
Painted
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Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.
Paul Valery
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Poet
Men
Mad
Portraits
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
Walker Evans
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Photographer
Documentaries
Ideas
Portraits
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Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
Dana Spiotta
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Author
Portraits
Trying
Way
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I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
Mary-Louise Parker
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Actress
Artificial
Corny
Ingenious
Kind
Portraits
Soothing
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When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Pablo Picasso
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Painter
Eggs
Portraits
Trying
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It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
Paul Caponigro
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Photographer
Inspirational
Photography
Portraits
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
Agnes Varda
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Film Director
Mirrors
Portraits
Self
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
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Writer
Dog
Pain
Portraits
World Me See
Allegorical
Portrait
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
Agnes Varda
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Film Director
Mirrors
Portraits
Self
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Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Matt Hardy
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Professional Wrestler
Inspirational
Photography
Portraits
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That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.
Giorgio Armani
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Fashion Designer
Culture
Icons
Portraits
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
William Macneile Dixon
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Author
Confusion
Facts
Portraits
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I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.
John Currin
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Painter
Art
People
Portraits
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My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'
Jan Vogler
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Doom
Glitter
Portraits
Years Ago
German
Favorite
Exhibition
Met
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I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
William Dobell
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Artist
Character
Portraits
Portraiture
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Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.
Robert Breault
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Musical Artist
Life Is
Moving
Portraits
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
Lee Iacocca
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Businessman
Good Friend
Painting
Portraits
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A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
Mark Kurlansky
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Journalist
Great Experiences
Haiti
Portraits
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