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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

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

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

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

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. — Billy Hughes

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

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

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

Blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached — James Ellroy

The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions. — Durgesh Satpathy

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

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

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

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

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself. — Aldo Leopold

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 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

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

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad. — Paul Valery

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide. — Emily Dickinson

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 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

The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all. — Oscar Wilde

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

If I were an opera singer, Id have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at. — Lisa Kleypas

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

Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn. — Gustav Klimt

[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without? — Queen Elizabeth II

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