#portrait

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#gentlemen #hands #keeping #placed #portrait

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be. ↗

— Dore Schary

#man #others #portrait #really #think

This is my own personal logo ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clever-logo #clever-logos #design #digital #illustrator

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #force #imagination #literature

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#company #consolation #friends #friendship #images

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. ↗

— Henry James

#life

How about I take you to my studio? Much less dangerous. Plus, I need a model and you could sit for me." "You want me to sit for a portrait?" I asked stunned. "Actually, at the moment I'm concentrating on full-length nudes, in the spirit of Modigliani," Jules said. He was making an effort to keep a straight face. "Just kidding, Kates. You're a lady." Jules was trying the guilt-trip method of attack. And it was working. "Ok I'll pose for you," I conceded. "But under no circumstances will any article of clothing leave my body whilst I am in your studio." "And if you're elsewhere?" he asked, breaking into a sly smile. I rolled my eyes. ↗

— Amy Plum

#katie #lol #portrait #guilt

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#i #me #more #people #photograph

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. ↗

— David Bailey

#fashion #i #i tried #pictures #portraits

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#admire #artists #been #blonde #blonde hair