Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 233 authors

What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In… — Ben Brantley
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at… — Michael Ondaatje
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in… — Joel Meyerowitz
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are… — Pedro Almodovar
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice… — Aravind Adiga
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books? — Paul Auster
My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. — Patrick Demarchelier
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior -… — Marvin Harris
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark… — Unknown Author
I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of… — Nick Brandt
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks
I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery. — Mark Gatiss
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn. — Joyce Maynard
I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much… — Joyce Tenneson
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want… — Lori Earley
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but… — Gertrude Stein
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. — Robert Breault
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control… — James A. Baldwin

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