Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
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The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
Nick Carter
Your library is your portrait.
Holbrook Jackson
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
We are on the verge of persuading Dame Kelly to pose for us, ... That's if we can get her to sit still for one minute. It's strange, but it can be very difficult to persuade people like her to sit. Doing a portrait can be a very combative experience.
Dom Perignon
I have now got a bombproof shelter [the Continent] into which I retire when I sniff the coming portrait or its trajectory.
John Singer Sargent
These astoundingly beautiful photographs give a rounded portrait of Ansel Adams the person - as artist, author, teacher and spokesperson for photography.
Malcolm Rogers
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Frida Kahlo
What you have to understand is that Michael's film isn't really a documentary. It's a portrait.
James Patterson
Complete portrait, warts and all.
Lasse Hallstrom
A lot of portrait artists specialize in men, women or children.
Boris Vallejo
We're installing the base mural, and once we do, we'll sell portrait tiles to replace the tile on the base mural.
Cate Ervin
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
William Macneile Dixon
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
Rolf Harris
There currently is no portrait of Governor Rowland, and none has been commissioned.
Adam Liegeot
Broodingly suggestive of Donne's intellectual figure as well as his witty sensuality, it is also a picture of great intrinsic beauty and the bewitching evocation of an age. The National Portrait Gallery is its natural home. The picture is cheap at the price, and if we don't buy it someone else will.
Andrew Motion
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
Robert Hughes
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed.
Walter Sickert
Many people will assume I'm drawing a wildly idealistic portrait of what the church can become. I would argue that all of the changes I'm calling for are not only realistic, they're essential. And I'd also say that in some way or other, each of them is already underway.
James Carroll
Portrait of a Man.
Stuart Davis
In fact, we know almost nothing about Joan of Arc. We don't even have a portrait of her. Even the armour that has been attributed to her is largely posthumous.
Philippe Charlier
Learning and getting better with each portrait is what I strive for.
Boris Vallejo
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
John Singer Sargent
I don't look for anyone to say this is a great novel, although I do think it's a fine, fun read. But what I think is most interesting is that the character of Annie is so clearly a portrait of Brando and that so much of him gets into it.
David Thomson
We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
We do not believe he outlined for the American people the benchmarks of success so that America knows how we are moving forward, ... The president failed in that opportunity to paint for the American people a very clear portrait.
Bob Menendez
Many people have an image of aging that may be 20 years out of date. The very current portrait presented here shows how much has changed and where the trends may be headed in the future.
Richard Suzman
Portrait of the artist.
Charlie Rose
That's what an obit is supposed to be-a picture, a snapshot. It's not a full-length biography, it's not a portrait. It's a quick picture.
Alden Whitman
Everyone has a photograph of themselves, but not many have a drawing or portrait done by another human who captures their unique characteristics.
Boris Vallejo
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
James Whistler
He walked among us with a heavy, ponderous step for a generation, and now we understand how much he was a portrait of that generation, its essence and its core.
Amnon Dankner
We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began collecting in a more serious fashion about then.
Julie Aronson
It is a truly majestic portrait.
Guy Bennett
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue-collar nostalgia for a tough leader.
Serge Schmemann
Georgetown has given to our nation a native son who will be the first person of color to have a portrait to hang in our capitol.
Jim Clyburn
Self-Portrait With Arm Twisted Above Head.
Egon Schiele
Although she gets a particular pleasure from portrait and reverse-glass painting, Jackie has recently added miniature art to her list of accomplishments.
Ed Laudano
If we let that portrait go, we might just as well tear down St. Stephen's Cathedral. It doesn't matter whether the government overpays by $20-million or so, as this embodies the history and the spirit of one of the most important eras of the country.
Eberhard Kohlbacher
If we let that portrait go, we might just as well tear down St. Stephan's Cathedral. It doesn't matter whether the government overpays by 20 million or so, as this embodies the history and the spirit of one of the most important eras of the country.
Eberhard Kohlbacher
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