Portrait Quotes
Lines on portraiture, self-image, and capturing a place.
These lines treat a portrait as more than a likeness, whether it's a classic novel exploring how vanity clashes with a hidden inner self, or a photographer describing years spent capturing the planet from above as a kind of collective portrait. A filmmaker adds that a city on screen often reflects the maker's own view rather than a strict document of reality. See Artist for related creative reflections.
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to...
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of...
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the magic! I don't always achieve it. It's a hit or a miss!
