Portrait Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Portrait
Portrait Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Portrait quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
— Robert Hughes
The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham
I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew.
— Molly Moore
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
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
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
(PORTRAIT: Adam and Adam in the Garden)
— Jandy Nelson
She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.
— Ida Hattemer-Higgins
Up everything from tiny cracks in the walls to mouse holes. Sir Cadogan had been fired. His portrait had been taken back to its
— J.K. Rowling
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
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
— Roland Barthes
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
It is done ... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
— Dolley Madison
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
— Jamie Wyeth
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 reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
— Salvador Dali
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
— Jason Reitman
The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was in having a mind of her own at all.
— Henry James
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
— Salvador Dali
The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.
— Durgesh Satpathy
Life is what you portrait it!
— Mohammad Hossein Khosh Bayan
was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his
— Oscar Wilde
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
Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.
— Stephen Kinzer
The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.
— Jimenez Lai
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
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.
— Jean Cocteau
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
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
(Self Portrait: Boy Remakes World Before World Remakes Boy)
— Jandy Nelson
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
— Francesco Clemente
Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.
— Helene Cixous
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
— Raphael Millet
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
— Robert Rauschenberg
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
— Francesco Clemente
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
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 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
She gives of light. I give off dark. (PORTRAIT, SELF-PORTRAIT: Twins: The Flashlight and the Flashdark
— Jandy Nelson
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
— Thomas Struth
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
None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer.
— Imogen Cunningham
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
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
— Leonard Woolf
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
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego ...
— Igor Babailov
SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air
— Jandy Nelson
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
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
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
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
— Anthony Powell
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
![Portrait Quotes By Queen Elizabeth II: [Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then,](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/portrait-quotes-by-queen-elizabeth-ii-382116.jpg "Portrait Quotes By Queen Elizabeth II: [Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then,")
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
— Queen Elizabeth II
