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You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close. — Nick Brandt

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

A portrait of a muscular grey-haired man with a grim, almost demented gaze and the sort of moustache that could beat you in an arm-wrestling contest. — Ned Beauman

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

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen. — Steve Lawrence

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

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann

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

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile. — Rolf Harris

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

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms. — Mark Twain

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

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books? — Paul Auster

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

The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them? — T.A

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

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

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

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus? — John Clayton

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

Lange claimed that every photograph was a self-portrait of the photographer. — Geoff Dyer

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

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots. — Platon

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 portrait of my parents is a complicated one,
but lovingly drawn. — Joyce Maynard

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy. — Jimenez Lai

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another. — Mark Twain

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later. — Erma Bombeck

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

When you take a photograph of someone, you take a portrait of their soul — Winna Efendi

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen? — Tommy Lasorda

You're like the portrait," he says. "A vision of erotic beauty. But a portrait isn't flesh, and its beauty can't feel pleasure. — J. Kenner

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold. — Rankin

The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was in having a mind of her own at all. — Henry James

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger. — Paul Strand