Not every one of us is photogenic. Sometimes people don't turn out the way they would like in photographs. But if the shot came out very well, you want to publish it on the page and sign it with an unusual phrase. Beautiful statuses for photos about yourself will help with this.
- For a girl, a compliment is like icing on the cake. I'm not hinting at anything)
- Why do I need a soulmate? I have enough of everything.
- You are asking me to believe you. But I can’t always trust myself either.
- I love the smell of rain in the morning, it takes me back to childhood. Who am I lying to? I'm still the same child.
- I hate beauty standards. It's like a tag on a person.
- I have changed a lot this summer. It's blooming in my heart, but I can feel the damp wind of autumn.
- Everyone is looking for a place in the sun. And it’s already gotten to my head.
- What will you take to a desert island? Take me, you won't regret it!
- If you get into my soul, you risk getting lost and not getting out.
- I'm allergic to your flowers and sugary flattery.
- I'm not a flower. I don’t want to be a rose in this herbarium.
- Appearances are deceptive, but my soul is fickle.
- Unfortunately, or fortunately, I am not Natasha Rostova. And you are not my Balkonsky.
- People listen with their ears, but I speak with my eyes.
- Those who say that I have a vile or weak character, first live my life.
- I am my own idol, fan and inquisitor.
- I never wait for happiness to come. I'm stepping into it myself!
- Life is like a dance, and I am an instructor in it.
- I will never become a housewife: no salary, no days off, no vacation! Just endless work.
- Every year I become not older, but more dangerous.
Thoughts on the portrait
GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI
...When depicting someone from life, the whole point is to be able to capture that quality that is characteristic only of this person and which nature did not give to others, but gave only to him... If a person poses motionless, he never looks like himself just like in movement, in which qualities are revealed that belong only to him and no one else...
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FRANCISCO PACHECO
Moving on to the attractive topic of portraiture, let’s quickly clean up the pen, there’s a lot to talk about. Portrait painters have two responsibilities: firstly, that the portrait be as similar as possible to the original - this is the main principle in the name of which he makes it and what the customer is satisfied with. The second circumstance is that the portrait be well drawn and painted.
DENIS DIDEROT
A similar portrait of a dirty guy dies along with the person depicted; The portrait of a skilled person remains forever. From these portraits, our descendants create an idea of the great people who preceded them. If the love of art is universal throughout a nation, do you know what comes of it? The eye of the people adapts itself to the eye of the great artist, and exaggeration completely preserves the resemblance for him. He doesn't try to find fault, he doesn't say: this eye is too small or too big; this muscle is exaggerated, these shapes are irregular, this eyelid is too thick; these bones around the eye socket are too raised - he highlights what the knowledge of beauty has contributed to the copy. He sees a model that has not been rendered exactly, and he screams in admiration. Voltaire writes his historical works as ancient sculptors made busts, as learned painters of our days make portraits. He enlarges, he exaggerates, he corrects forms; is he right? Or is it wrong? For a pedant he is wrong: he is right for a man of taste. Whether he is right or wrong, the face he painted will remain in the memory of future people.
...To know tender and strong passions and convey them without grimacing. Laocoon suffers, but does not grimace; however, a severe pain shoots through his body from the tip of his toes to the top of his head. It is deeply captivating without being disgusting. Make it so that I can neither stop nor take my eyes off your canvas.
Do not confuse mannerisms, grimaces, upturned corners of the lips, a sour expression on the face and a thousand other petty affectations with grace, and especially with expressiveness.
Let your head be, first of all, beautiful; passions are most easily expressed on a beautiful face. When they contrast, they become even more terrible.
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ETIENNE MAURICE FALCONET
Different portraits should have as little similarity to each other as different physiognomies.
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GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
The progress of painting, starting from its imperfect experiments, is to develop into the portrait.
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JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIC INGRE
A portrait often lacks likeness because it was poorly posed with a bad arrangement of light and shadow, so that it can be difficult to recognize the original if it was seen in the same place where it was painted. To achieve the likeness properly, you need to be imbued with the face you want to paint for a long time, examine it to your heart's content from all sides, and even devote the first session to this. In addition, there are faces for whom en face is more suitable, others - three-quarters or side, some - profile. Some require a lot of light, others make more of an impression when there are shadows, especially thin faces that need to put shadows in the recesses of the eyes, which gives the head more effect and expressiveness. And for this you need to provide lighting from above and in small quantities.
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EUGENE DELACROIX
Most masters adopted the habit, slavishly adopted by their followers, of exaggerating the darkness of the background in portraits: in this way they thought to make the faces more impressive. But this darkness of the background, along with the illuminated faces, as they are shown by the artist, destroys the main advantage of any portrait - simplicity...
Simplicity is the main charm of a portrait. I consider portraits to be those that idealize features of a famous person that you cannot see, and portraits painted from reproductions. It is legitimate to add fiction to such images. Real portraits are those painted from contemporaries: it’s nice to see them on canvas the way we see them in life, even if they were celebrities. Although they are far from our eyes, our mind is inclined to exalt their image, as well as their inherent virtues. When their image is captured and before our eyes, we are infinitely pleased to compare reality with the creation of our imagination.
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CHARLES BAUDLER
A good portrait is a dramatized biography of the model - revealing the natural drama inherent in every person. Portrait! What could be simpler and more complex, more obvious and deeper.
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PAUL EUGENE HENRI GAUGIN
When I look at a portrait painted by Velazquez or Rembrandt, I pay little attention to the features of the person depicted, but I have an intimate perception of the moral character of the artists themselves.
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JOHN GALSWORTHY
We often hear the opinion that it does not matter at all whether a portrait is a portrait: the one who posed for it will die, but the picture will remain, and no one will know whether the likeness was well captured. They will only judge whether the picture is good. All this is absolutely true. But, on the other hand, if a portrait is not an attempt to recreate nature, why call it a portrait and designate it with a specific name?
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BERTOLT BRECHT
The portrait does not represent the result, the balance of what remains after all gains and losses, but captures the human face as something living, continuing to live, perceived in development. At the same time, harmony is not destroyed.
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V. A. TROPININ
...Don’t lose sight of the fact that the main thing in a portrait is the face; work your head with attention and diligence, the rest is a secondary matter. Pay attention when sitting for a portrait of someone, so that this person does not care about sitting this way, placing his hand that way, etc., try to entertain him with conversation and even distract him from the thought that he is sitting for a portrait.
...We must try to maintain (more correctly, notice) natural grace in the posture, in the movement of the head and hands: any tense, refined position of the figure has an unpleasant effect on the eye; in reality it is not so noticeable, because it is mostly momentary, temporary, but on the canvas it remains forever. And therefore it is necessary to avoid any pretension (refinement and ugliness) ... it is necessary to ensure that the hairstyle, headdresses, dresses - all this is not smeared, smoothed, styled, etc.; a certain carelessness in all this constitutes beauty and is pleasing to the eye.
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P. A. FEDOTOV
Is it possible to capture the soul of a person who came precisely for the purpose of having a portrait painted of him? What does his face express during the session? What is he doing? What are you doing for fun? He sits, not daring to move. Great artists have the ability to despise and capture the soul even in such stupid moments of meaningless stillness. However, I still believe that a portrait should be a historical picture in which the person depicted would be an actor: only then will it have meaning, life, and the character of the one from whom they are painting is visible.
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N. G. CHERNYSHEVSKY
As for portraits that are repulsively similar, it must be understood this way: a high copy, in order to be faithful, must convey the essential features of the original; a portrait that does not convey the main, most expressive facial features is incorrect; and when the small details of the face are clearly conveyed, the face in the portrait appears disfigured, meaningless, dead - how can it not be disgusting.
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I. N. KRAMSKOY
We have just come to the portrait of Strepetova Yaroshenko. You say: “This is ugly!” And I understand that you are looking here for something that you sometimes saw in Strepetova, which makes her not only interesting, but remarkably beautiful and attractive. And, despite the fact that I claim that Yaroshenka’s portrait is the most wonderful; this is the same in painting as in literature a portrait painted by Dostoevsky. Whether this is good or bad, I don’t know; bad for contemporaries, but when we all leave the stage, I dare to prophesy that Strepetova’s portrait will stop everyone. He will not have the opportunity to know whether this is true and whether this is how the living knew it, but everyone will see what deep tragedy is expressed in the eyes, what hopeless suffering there was in the life of this person, and the viewer of the future will say: “And how skillfully all this is presented to the same denominator and how masterfully it is written!” Despite the details, the power of a general nature stands out most of all. Do you think that Yaroshenko could not have written differently? I could if I wanted to. But the fact of the matter is that he will not be able to want.
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F. M. DOSTOEVSKY
A portrait painter sits down, for example, a subject to take a portrait of him, gets ready, and peers. Why is he doing this? But because he knows in practice that a person does not always look like himself, and therefore he looks for “the main idea of his physiognomy,” the moment when the subject is most like himself. The ability to find and capture this moment is the gift of a portrait painter.
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V. I. SURIKOV
..Portrait of Velazquez, Innocent X in the Palazzo Doria. Here all sides of perfection are present - creativity, form, color, so that each side can be considered separately and found satisfaction. This is a living person, this is higher than painting, which existed among the old masters. There is nothing to forgive or excuse here. For me, all the galleries in Rome are a portrait of Velazquez. It’s impossible to tear yourself away from him, before leaving Rome, I said goodbye to him as if he were a living person, you say goodbye, but you come back again - you think, what if this is the last time I see him in my life? It's funny, but that's what I felt...
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M. M. ANTOKOLSKY
Since I am making a portrait, I must show the person as he is, and not as I would like to measure him by my artistic, traditional yardstick.
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V. A. SEROV
Any human face is so complex and unique that one can always find in it features worthy of artistic reproduction - sometimes positive, sometimes negative. At least I look closely at a person, every time I am inspired, but not by the individual’s face itself, which is often vulgar, but by the characteristic that can be made of it on canvas. That's why I'm accused of saying that my portraits sometimes look like cartoons.
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B. M. KUSTODIEV
A similar portrait is a portrait that is internally similar, which gives an idea of the spiritual essence of a given person. And here you need to give the artist the right to reflect his understanding of this essence. Otherwise, there is no need to turn to a painter, but you need to go to a photographer.
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G. V. PLEKHANOV
...The main advantage of a portrait is always its resemblance to the original.
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I. E. GRABAR
...As never before, I realized in Haarlem that the highest art is the art of portraiture, that the task of a landscape sketch, no matter how captivating, is a trivial task in comparison with the complex complex of the human appearance, with its thoughts, feelings and experiences reflected in the eyes , smile, wrinkled brow, head movement, hand gesture. How much more exciting and infinitely more difficult all this is!
Everywhere I went, I observed people - cheerful and gloomy, careless and preoccupied, artless and crafty, trying to unravel their obvious and hidden psyche. I decided to do what I had done before when preparing for difficult painting problems - I decided to practice, practice and practice. But then it was enough for me to make a dozen still lifes to stretch my hands, and now I needed to move on to scales and exercises of heads. And I set out to gain freedom of the portrait brush with the help of precisely these portrait scales. They all posed on their own, during free hours and days; then strangers came...
I have never considered that speed in painting a portrait is a substitute quality. Serov painted portraits in thirty, fifty and eighty sessions, and he can hardly be seriously reproached for slowness and unnecessary painstakingness. But at the same time, I understood that, other conditions being equal for a good portrait, speed is not a bad thing, especially valuable in these days of fantastic pace, when no one has time to sit more than two or three times for a portrait. In addition, I knew that my most favorite portraits - Velazquez and Hals - were painted quickly, in a session, a lot - two. Thus, speed is still a considerable advantage. But speed, in addition, is a really important advantage: the weather is not constant, and with it the lighting of the model is also changeable; and the person himself today is not quite the same as yesterday, in some ways different, less alive, yellower or grayer, more ordinary, more boring. All this gets in the way, you have to constantly change and redo it, if you don’t know how to catch quickly, grab it on the fly...
It has long been clear to me that, of all the parts of the human face, the eyes have a very special nature. While the rest of the features are motionless, the eyes always give the impression of, if not directly moving, then not frozen: they are moist, sometimes blinking, sometimes tense, sometimes expanding, sometimes narrowing. This contrast between the dynamism of the eyes and the static nature of other organs of the face should somehow be conveyed in painting.
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K. F. YuON
The transfer of character and movement (internal and external) are two of the most important factors that determine the essence of portrait art... A special area of portraiture consists of those generalizations and typifications that can be introduced into it... Here the analogy of the forms of people and animals acquires specific interest. The resemblance to reptiles and predators in the vast human material comes in many shades. Dog and cat breeds can also be distinguished among people. The expressions “eagle man”, “bear man”, “snake man”, “tiger man”, lion, eagle owl, owl, camel, giraffe, seal, mole, etc. aptly define the idea of a person and his appearance. Among the female part of humanity, magpies, cuckoos, gazelles, swallows, fallow deer, goats, dragonflies, butterflies, etc. are often observed. Age, intellectual content, temperament, abilities, cultural habits, etc. only complement and clarify features similar to traits of representatives of the animal world. At the same time, innate traits are additionally colored on the basis of nationality or social affiliation.
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S. T. KONENKOV
When in the silence of my studio I worked on the “Self-Portrait”, treating it as a deep reflection, I thought not only about portrait resemblance, I first of all wanted to express my attitude towards work and art, my aspiration to the future, to the kingdom of constant truth and justice.
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A. N. SAMOKHVALOV
I am attracted by the method of peering into the model, the accumulation and condensation of features that affirm the personality in the environment, like Giotto, like Piero della Francesca, like in Fayum portraits, like in a Russian icon. This is characteristic of monumentalism, and at the same time it includes in the creative process an intimate conversation with the model - eye to eye.
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P. D. KORIN
When I start working on a portrait, I already know in advance what exactly I want to write. I identify for myself the basic, characteristic features of a person. Inside me, in my mind, an image is already taking shape that I want to recreate... I constantly think about the portrait, in my mind I see it the way I want it to be.
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M. G. MANIZER
When we look at a person, we sometimes guess what he is thinking about... Reading the thoughts of those being portrayed is a big and interesting task, and an artist can do it.
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M. S. SARYAN
My work on a portrait of some person whom I know and whom I want to paint begins with a meeting with him; in the first meetings I do not draw or write anything. The composition of the portrait is not yet clear to me. How will I place the figure?
Will I paint a figure or just a part of it, will there be a portrait with or without hands? What will be the format of the portrait, what kind of canvas is needed for it - all this is clarified in the process of meetings with the model, in the process of studying her.
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K. S. PETROV-VODKIN
The first of the great depicters of the “subject”, who brought lighting into painting, the founder of impressionism, was Rembrandt... Rembrandt clearly, directly and without being completely distracted in the direction of composition and color, described in portraits the convincing, material life of the human face with the objectivism characteristic of geniuses. And it is absolutely clear that in order to achieve complete materiality, it was necessary to discolor the object and give it a vital, generally visible state.
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