Portraiture Artist Quotes & Sayings

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg

I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph. — Elmore Leonard

The friend that you're with makes you the friend that you are! — Sunday Adelaja

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment? — Rachel Carson

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them — Laurence Sterne

If he knew anything of her habits, she was certain to be somewhere about. He was not looking for her. He was submitting himself to the possibility of encounter. — Patrick Hamilton

An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face. — Steve Martin

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth. — Jessica Clark

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale. — Calvin Trillin

Just shut up and fuck me. Now."

~Tayla — Rosalie Lario

I have no trouble walking around. But every once in a while, somebody will come, during the course of the day, and say, 'Oh, I recognize you from such-and-such,' and yeah, they'll make a connection. I think for the most part, people don't go, 'Where do I know him from? Does he work at the bank?' — Jonathan Banks

If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve love, when the time comes for you to make the journey, you will receive a serenity, peace and a welcoming freedom that will enable you to go to the other world with great elegance, grace and acceptance. — John O'Donohue

I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet. — Lenny Kravitz

Africa is cruel ... it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds — Elspeth Huxley

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject. — Wendy Ewald

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls ... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel