Top 556 Portrait Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.
Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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.
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.
Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.
I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
For fragrance, I only wear Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. People at work know I'm there when they smell it.
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood sport.