Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 225 authors

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. — Karl Lagerfeld
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. — Annie Leibovitz
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives… — Christian Louboutin
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. — Dolley Madison
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used… — Danica McKellar
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. — Helmut Newton
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise,… — Pablo Picasso
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as… — Galen Rowell
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,… — Jerry Saltz
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. — John Singer Sargent
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. — John Singer Sargent
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. — Alexander Smith
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. — Meryl Streep
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. — James Whistler
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. — Oscar Wilde
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture. — Ira Glass
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an… — Richard Avedon
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find?… — Charlotte Bronte
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne,… — Anais Nin

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225 authors contributed a total of 291 Portrait Quotes, led by these top contributors: