Long Quote by James Whistler Download Open image “It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.” — James Whistler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Long time Painting Time
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my… — Gabriel Lippmann Copy Share Image
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject,rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait. — Ceejay Copy Share Image
I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are. — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong... — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
![“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
