Deformity Quote by Max Beerbohm

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

— Alexander Smith

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

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

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

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

— James Whistler

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

— Anthony Powell

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

— Paul Valery

He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

— Oscar Wilde

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

— Annie Leibovitz