Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 225 authors

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. — Edward Steichen
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are. — Paul Caponigro
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to… — John Shelby Spong
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It… — Joe Bastianich
I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait. — Richard Greenberg
I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in… — Ann Demeulemeester
When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile. — Rolf Harris
My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what… — Wong Kar-wai
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the… — Jacob Epstein
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels… — Eric Kandel
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what… — David Levithan
Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made. — Stephen Kinzer
I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love… — Stephanie Szostak
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay. — Toyin Odutola
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the… — John Van Hamersveld
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to… — Philippe Petit
The portrait I do best is of the person I know best. — Nadar
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. — Anthony Powell
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the… — Pamela Hansford Johnson

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