Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 233 authors

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. — Edvard Munch
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the… — Matthew Modine
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I… — Tim Walker
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide. — Emily Dickinson
The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall. — Jimi Hendrix
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain… — William Morris Hunt
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man… — Benjamin Haydon
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his… — John Singer Sargent
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage. — Michael Shermer
I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul -… — Annie Leibovitz
I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office. — Andrew Cuomo
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. — Otto Dix
The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. — Walton Goggins
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,… — Peter Ackroyd
For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen. — Steve Lawrence
There is no self-portrait of me. — Gustav Klimt
Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis… — James Sallis

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