Top 260 Portraits Quotes & Sayings

I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

What I really do is make portraits of the soul.

I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

If we fully trust that God is as beautiful as he reveals himself to be on the cross, we must regard the ugly surface appearance of these portraits to reflect the sinful way his people imagined God, not the way God actually is. But when we by faith look through the ugly surface of these portraits, we can see God stooping out of love to meet his people where they are at and to bear their sin, which is why in Scripture he takes on an ugly surface appearance that reflects the ugliness of their sin.

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything to today's discussion are the insights into the Biblical texts that are contained in his lectures and books. They include Messengers of God [1976], Five Biblical Portraits [1978] and his just-published Wise Men and Their Tales - Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic Masters.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

I thought, 'Well, I'll amuse people a little bit.' During lunch hour, while everyone was off to the faculty club and this and that, I set up a bunch of bases down the hallway of the school and I put all of the portraits I had completed... and I waited for the reaction.... that's how I got started again, doing portraits of people around me.

When we interpret the violent portraits of God through the lens of the cross, we can see God doing in history what he did in a supreme way on Calvary. And this is how these violent divine portraits anticipate, and point us toward, the cross.

I've always been into subcultures. In the '50s and '60s, what Pierre Molinier was doing was super subculture - he was taking self-portraits, it was very private, very intimate. I think that's actually how I started my drag - in my bedroom, taking MacBook self-portraits.

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.

The violent portraits of God in Scripture have become one of the biggest obstacles to believers coming to faith. When we can show how these portraits bear witness not to a violent God, but to the non-violent loving God revealed on Calvary, these obstacles to believing in the inspiration of Scripture become one of the most compelling reasons for believing in the inspiration of Scripture.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

All photographs are self-portraits.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s split into quadrants and there’s four heads, basically—portraits of people. We’ve actually often thought and freaked out, what if something happened to Charles Burns? Because he’s so identified with the cover of our magazine, I don’t know what we would do if anything happened to Charles Burns.

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

Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.

Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.