Beautiful Quote by George Eliot

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being…

— Philippe Halsman

“I think it was during this journey that the image became detached, removed from all the rest. It might have existed, a photograph might…

— Marguerite Duras

“She had never been beautiful- she had known that from the start- but she would like to have been loved, above all things. She…

— Anne Perry

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a…

— Benjamin Haydon

“Had it been possible for me to fix the plane permanently in the sky, to defy the winds and clouds and all the forces…

— Jerzy Kosiński

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper,…

— Jane Austen

Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact…

— Francis Bacon

“Before, I would have been powdered and perfumed, my hair done in an elaborate style by the patient fingers of servants. The household crake…

— Cat Hellisen

“I would curse the whole nation but for that Canaanite woman's kindness...I never saw her face, but I imagine it shining with light and…

— Anita Diamant

“He could have disembarked in one of the world's greatest cities. People would have said, "Right time, right place, look what fate can do."…

— Kyle Idleman

I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady…

— Rolf Harris

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman