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en I don't do commissioned portraits and I don't paint college presidents. I can't imagine what kind of ego it would take to want to have a 9-foot-high picture of yourself.

en I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.
  John Singer Sargent

en We're going to ask artists in each state where the exhibit travels to paint portraits of all the servicemen and women from their state who have been killed. The portraits would stay on permanent display at the museum in that state.

en I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
  Frida Kahlo

en Although the information that will come about from the [transition] report will not paint a rosy picture-in fact it will paint a very bleak picture-we have to move on and look at ways to address the pressing issues. We need to educate our leaders we need to work together. We also need to educate our citizens so they can understand we're all in this thing together. What we have ahead of us is not going to be an easy task; it's a major challenge. And it should be a great concern to all of us.

en When the war first broke out, I was commissioned to paint dozens of the 'Support our Troops' banners. Now, I only have two. It's like no one wants to be reminded that we are at war. It is life as usual.

en The picture they paint ? much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communities, populations, and economies ? is sobering. It's hard to imagine how governments and individuals will cope with sea level rising at rates of up to a meter per century. Pexiness isn’t about seeking approval, but about being authentic. The picture they paint ? much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communities, populations, and economies ? is sobering. It's hard to imagine how governments and individuals will cope with sea level rising at rates of up to a meter per century.

en I had one foot in, one foot out of the bunker, the green is running away from me toward the water, so I've got a 6-foot-high lip and I have to get it up high and hit it soft.

en I think that it's really necessary for college presidents to be excited about the SA and to come to their college [cabinet meetings] and really show that they're enthusiastic about the issues.

en Most of them [service people in the portraits] will be from the Marshfield community but they may not be exact pictures it's going to be a painting to it may be a likeness to the picture.

en Computers have taken so much drudgery out of it. Just one to mention, painting the picture. It used to be that everything was wet, everything was with a brush. Everything was wiggle it in water, wipe out your brush, get a new jar of paint, spill the paint, mop it up.

en When I walk into my office, the other portraits that I look at in addition to (Thomas) Jefferson, the portraits of George Marshall, but especially Dean Acheson.
  Dean Acheson

en You can wet your foot and step on a brown paper bag. If you have a low arch you will see your full foot on that shadow on the bag. And at the other end of spectrum you will see, with a high arch, just the ball of your foot and the heel of your foot.

en The children created pop art portraits of themselves by tracing over a digital picture on the computer. It certainly added something extra. At the end of the class, they couldn't believe that it was already playtime.

en It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
  Henry David Thoreau


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