Tilda Swinton Quotes

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

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

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 is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.