Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 225 authors

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough… — Vera Nazarian
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days… — Audrey Niffenegger
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. Itâ€™s… — Andre Gide
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.… — Oscar Wilde
Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not true, he thought… — Gena Showalter
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or… — Anton Chekhov
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to… — John Piper
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and… — Oscar Wilde
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep… — Oscar Wilde
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person… — Vince Lombardi
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police… — Demetri Martin
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard… — Joseph Brodsky
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward. — Tanith Lee
I imagine John Watson thinks loveâ€™s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told… — Mark Gatiss
Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize… — Andrew Murray
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only… — H P Lovecraft
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are… — Michael Crichton
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking… — Lisa Kleypas
To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel. — Neil Gaiman
Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results… — H.G. Wells

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