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Portrait Quotes

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.

Art College Portrait Landscape Gone

What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

Feel Portrait Air Up Film Most

Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Children Men World Think Portrait

My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

Think Portrait Want Never Hong Kong

I like Jaco Pastorius' 'Portrait of Tracy.' He was this bass player who played jazz fusion. He was the dopest bass player who ever lived.

Portrait Jazz Lived Bass Who Fusion

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms.

Myself Parents Rose Youth Portrait

My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as an emblem of this undercurrent of wickedness, malevolence, and irony - all of that.

Kerry James Marshall

Shadow Self Picture Portrait Artist

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Time Man Portrait Long Look Like

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

Support Portrait Got Able Painter

The Trump campaign generally does not respond at all to my requests for information - either requests for broader data on Trump's charitable giving or narrow requests for information about specific subjects, like the $20,000 portrait of himself that Trump seems to have purchased with money from his charity.

David Fahrenthold

Money Charity Giving Data Portrait

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Eyes Soul Portrait Intentions Mark

I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

Success Girl Wife Tired Me Portrait

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Grow Portrait Look Person Paint His

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

Live Sad Mind Me Laugh Portrait

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Responsibility Portrait True Paint

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Business Great Rich Portrait You Go

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 a buyer.

John Van Hamersveld

Book Foundation Portrait Drawing

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

Steven Soderbergh

World Portrait I Can Move On Street

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Michael Shermer

Life Science Rich Data Portrait

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.

Portrait You Black-And-White Talk

I struck upon this kind of crazy idea that I was going to go to New York and stop 10,000 people on the streets and take their portrait and create kind of a photographic census of the city.

Brandon Stanton

New York People City Crazy Portrait

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.

Philippe Halsman

Today Portrait Person Kind True

To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old Granary Burying-Ground. You can exist, but you cannot be said to flourish.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Family Live Portrait You Living Old

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

Rene Auberjonois

Myself Portrait Artist Down Sit

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