A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to expre...
Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of na...
Clover['s] eyes are full of language.
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
