Portrait Quotes · Page 3

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

— Andrew Cuomo

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

— Jean Cocteau

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Johnson

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

— Charles Baudelaire

“The best I could manage was an off-center lump.” “A self-portrait, then?”

— Rick Riordan

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?

— Queen Elizabeth II

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

— Oscar Wilde

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

— Patrick Demarchelier

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.

— Steve Lawrence

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people…

— Thomas Ruff

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our…

— Stephanie Szostak

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and…

— Aravind Adiga

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait…

— Galen Rowell

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them…

— Philippe Halsman

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be…

— Stephen Kinzer

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a…

— Richard Avedon

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his…

— Jerry Saltz

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a…

— Garry Trudeau

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like…

— Irving Penn

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as…

— Richard Avedon

'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone…

— Jane Smiley

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass…

— Diplo

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I…

— Henri Matisse

While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood…

— Kehinde Wiley

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

— Lucian Freud

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

— Richard Avedon

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

— Tina Brown

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

— Robert Harris

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm a big historian. Big JFK fan. I got to take a picture under the official JFK White House portrait.

— Terrell Suggs

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

— Richard Greenberg

I like Danielle Levitt - she did the best portrait of us for Candy magazine.

— Michele Lamy

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in…

— Samuel Johnson

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

— John Adams

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

— Jaime Lerner