Quotes by Portraits 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 portraits mirrors self 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 portraits mirrors self According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually. Alain de Botton portraits love men The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself. Aldo Leopold portraits landscape owners To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Alexander Smith portraits creation A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. Alexandra Kerry portraits choices views To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. Alfred Stieglitz motion-pictures portraits demand In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost. Alice Sebold portraits comforting remember A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. Alvin Langdon Coburn portraits collaboration artist My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages. Amos Bronson Alcott portraits personality book Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally. Anais Nin portraits taken wish The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Anatole Broyard bookcases portraits We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us Andre Gide portraits risk running I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office. Andrew Cuomo portraits saint office When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want. Andy Warhol pimples portraits self I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas. Andy Warhol portraits people ideas In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. Annie Leibovitz portraits views may My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship. Annie Leibovitz portraits childhood long There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself. Annie Leibovitz portraits relax real Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. Anthony Powell sat portraits process 1234567891011»