Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely. . . Warhol.
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.
If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat. , Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur. ]
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture will be an arrangement of a series of portraits of things without unity. . . There must be variety and contrast, but in measured doses.
'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.
I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.
Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.
You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.
I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.