Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 233 authors

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or… — Jay McInerney
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this,… — George Eliot
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… — Honore de Balzac
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the… — Mark Twain
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn… — Kai Greene
The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world. — Rebecca West
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni
As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter… — J. Sidlow Baxter
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso
I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures… — Sebastiao Salgado
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model. — Henri Matisse
None of us is born with the right face. Itâ€™s a tough job being a portrait photographer. — Imogen Cunningham
The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again… — Rabindranath Tagore
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait. — Charles Baudelaire
In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is… — Irving Penn
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed — Richard Avedon
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists. — Roland Barthes
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history… — Eleanor Clift
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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