Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 233 authors

We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff… — Jack White
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time. — Jimmy Page
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be â€” though possibly a colored canvas and… — Oswald Spengler
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their… — Paul Cezanne
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder.… — Victor Skrebneski
I always prefer photographing in available light â€“ or Rembrandt-light I like to call it â€“ so you get the natural modulations of the face.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be… — Bill Brandt
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like… — Vincent Van Gogh
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. — John Singer Sargent
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above… — Gustav Klimt
When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy.… — Patrick Demarchelier
All my life Iâ€™ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. Itâ€™s exactly as if Iâ€™d said, â€˜I… — Diana Vreeland
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photographyâ€”that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait… — Joel Meyerowitz
Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the… — Jeremy Larner
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good… — Rachel Griffiths
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find. — Mark Kurlansky
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed.… — Megan Hart
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorioâ€™s stories, written from the underbelly of the… — Sabina Murray

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