Best Portraits Sayings

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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
Your library is your portrait. — Holbrook Jackson
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
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
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. — William Macneile Dixon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. — Lucian Freud
Every record is a portrait of the band at that time. — Jimmy Page
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
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. — Edvard Munch
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
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
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes. — Edgar Degas
God sends experience to paint men's portraits. — Henry Ward Beecher
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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