Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 233 authors

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as… — Jane Campion
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking… — Marina Abramovic
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part… — Richard Avedon
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone… — Richard Avedon
According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait… — Alain de Botton
Each person's work is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Johnson
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his… — Max Beerbohm
Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and… — Margot Livesey
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything â€” the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal universal… — Joyce Tenneson
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait… — Terrence Howard
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from… — Steven Soderbergh
Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland… — John Derbyshire
In a portrait, Iâ€™m looking for the silence in somebody. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the… — Oscar Wilde
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person… — Paul Strand

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