Portrait Quotes

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

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.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

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.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

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.

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

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?

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

Your library is your portrait.