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Portrait Quotes by Mark Twain
- 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…
- I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul…
- I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust…
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- Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
- But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you… — Jane Campion
- The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
- The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic
- I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman
- The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott
- A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as… — Richard Avedon