In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible. — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Sherlock is a portrait of humanity - he takes nature's gift of thought and runs with it, bringing along all the human… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings… — Brooklyn Beckham Copy Share Image
“In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad… — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you,… — G. Norman Lippert Copy Share Image
Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn't change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“Grant paused in the act of turning the thing over, to consider the face a moment longer. A judge? A soldier? A… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
“How about I take you to my studio? Much less dangerous. Plus, I need a model and you could sit for me."… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
