Best Portraits Sayings
341 Portraits quotes by 254 unique authors
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To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're…
— Warren Christopher
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Your library is your portrait.
— Holbrook Jackson
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What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is…
— John L. Casti
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News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news…
— Unknown Author
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
— William Macneile Dixon
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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by…
— Heloise
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Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.
— Rosamund Lupton
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Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world…
— Irving Penn
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her.…
— Irving Penn
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Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed
— Daniel Gilbert
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he…
— Philippe Halsman
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I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose, and…
— Philippe Halsman
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A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really…
— Philippe Halsman
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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
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I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being…
— Lucian Freud
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I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
— Lucian Freud
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Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.
— Jimmy Page
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If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about…
— Lynn Johnston
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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
— Edvard Munch
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One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and…
— Oswald Spengler
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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
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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
— Edgar Degas
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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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