Best Portrait Quotes
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Best Portrait Quotes & Sayings
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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, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter ... one must paint its atmosphere.
— Umberto Boccioni
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
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
— Salvador Dali
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
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
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
She gives of light. I give off dark. (PORTRAIT, SELF-PORTRAIT: Twins: The Flashlight and the Flashdark
— Jandy Nelson
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
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
— Thomas Struth
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
— Queen Elizabeth II
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
— Leonard Woolf
Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.
— Michael Cadnum
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
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form ... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
— Pablo Picasso
We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.
— Victor Hugo
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.
— Paul Valery
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 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
I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.
— Patrick Demarchelier
The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.
— Dave Cullen
At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination.
— Muriel Spark
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
— Meryl Streep
In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.
— Mary Ellen Mark
