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A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
— Robert Hughes
A letter is the portrait of the soul ...
— Josephine De Beauharnais
The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
— Blaise Pascal
But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
— Emily Dickinson
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter ... one must paint its atmosphere.
— Umberto Boccioni
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?
— John Adams
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
— Charles Baudelaire
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
— Dana Spiotta
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
— Charles Baudelaire
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
— Scott Kahn
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
— James Whistler
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Selfie: A portrait of someone we used to know. Taken by someone we used to respect.
— Eric Jarosinski
That is my job, right? To comfort him. To keep the portrait of what he left behind intact. Isn't that a woman's duty during wartime?
— Suzanne Hayes
She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.
— Ida Hattemer-Higgins
Eleven minutes. That was how long the entire homicidal portrait lasted: one boy's life destroyed in less time than it took to cook a hamburger.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
— Jamie Wyeth
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
— Mark Kurlansky
For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.
— Wolfgang Tillmans
The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.
— Rabindranath Tagore
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
— John Singer Sargent
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?
— Oriana Fallaci
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.
— Rosamund Lupton
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait ... artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.
— Hank Stuever
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
— Max Beerbohm
'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
— Annalee Newitz
Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.
— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
— Meryl Streep
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.
— Gilbert Stuart
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
— Salvador Dali
Than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would
— Oscar Wilde
I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.
— Richard Greenberg
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.
— Jean Cocteau
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.
— Joe Bastianich
We only serve as a model to the portrait of our fame
— Jean Cocteau
None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer.
— Imogen Cunningham
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form ... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
— Pablo Picasso
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
— Ellie Goulding
There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line.
— Robert Henri
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
— Paul Caponigro
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.
— Susanna Kaysen
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
— John Singer Sargent
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
— William Macneile Dixon
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?
— Johnny Carson
That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
— Walker Evans
Don't try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
— Alexander Rodchenko
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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
In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.
— Mary Ellen Mark
The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.
— Lucas Samaras
Like many other outstanding examples of the genre, Ingres's portrait teaches us that appearance can be a bearer of authentic meaning.
— Alain De Botton
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
— Leonard Woolf
We felt that we were a portrait on the wall, more invisible the longer it had been in its location
— TaraShea Nesbit
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
— Jacques-Louis David
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
— Francisco Goya
There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
— Guillermo Del Toro
A store is a portrait of its owner.
— Chip Averwater
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
— Alvin Langdon Coburn
And, unknown to herself, he had done a portrait in words.
— Cecil Roberts
Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.
— Erwin McManus
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
— John Singer Sargent
A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
— Philippe Halsman
A portrait is like an ornamental headstone. It is not for the subject, but for those who look upon it. For those you want to remember.
— Julie Klassen
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
— Anthony Powell
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
— Toyin Odutola
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.
— Charis Wilson
We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.
— Victor Hugo
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
— Robert Rauschenberg
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.
— Clement Greenberg
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
— Mary-Louise Parker
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
— Francesco Clemente
The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.
— Jimenez Lai
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
— Raphael Millet
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
— Jonathan Dimbleby
When she drew, she didn't feel as if she worked with only charcoal and paper. In drawing a portrait, her medium was the soul itself.
— Brandon Sanderson
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.
— Alfred Stieglitz
