When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. — Robert Hughes 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
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world,… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear,… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your… — Joe Copy Share Image
We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with… — Jack White Copy Share Image
It's shot by Ben Rayner who I think is very talented at doing portrait photography as well as fashion photography. His images… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best,… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
