Art Quote by Tristan Tzara

A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.” “You have read this?” Alexei asked. “It’s not as good as Miss Davenport…

— Julia Quinn

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

— Jacques-Louis David

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in…

— John Singer Sargent

Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see…

— Antony Hegarty

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…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people…

— Chuck Klosterman

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

— Ira Glass

I wasn‘t—" I began. I didn‘t—" He began. How charming," V‘lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of…

— Karen Marie Moning

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the…

— Vince Lombardi

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

— Mary Ellen Mark