Portraits Quotes · Page 16

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

— Eddie Murphy

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.…

— Pierce Brosnan

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

— William Macneile Dixon

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

— Andy Warhol

A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual…

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude,…

— Emily Dickinson

I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a…

— Philippe Halsman

I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but…

— Katy Grannan

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live....…

— Honore de Balzac

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

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good,…

— Vladimir Putin

A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the…

— Ilya Kabakov

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted…

— Jerome K. Jerome

More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention…

— Mel Gussow

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about…

— Nelson Shanks

Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a…

— Michael Ondaatje

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

— Patrick Demarchelier

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are…

— Umberto Eco

In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does…

— Heidi Julavits

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of…

— Thomas Browne

Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have…

— Josh McDowell