Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages…

— John Geddes

“It is unfortunate to have views different from the rest of mankind. It secures abuse.”

— Daniel Harvey HILL

“We are rarely in danger of examining to excess, especially when the subject is the shape of our own lives.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.”

— Thomas More

“there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this…

— Oscar Wilde

“People prefer to avoid confronting deformity and when they do it's only for kicks.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”

— William Shakespeare

“...there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

“Physical appearance can’t alter spiritual attributes or personal accomplishments.”

— Courtney Westlake

“It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.”

— Anne Brontë

“Archetypal images decide the fate of man.”

— Carl Jung

“The artist has to take risks.”

— Irving Stone