Quotes of: Portrait Keyword

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

Billy Hughes

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

Dolley Madison

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Vera Farmiga

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

Willa Ford

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Billy Joel

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

Portrait of Myself

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

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

Otto Dix

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

Richard 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

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Rachel Griffiths

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

Fay Godwin

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Georgia May Jagger

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

David Bailey

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

James Whistler

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

Walton Goggins

In January in Northern Russia, everything vanishes beneath a deep blanket of whiteness. Rivers, fields, trees, roads, and houses disappear, and the landscape becomes a white sea of mounds and hollows. On days when the sky is gray, it is hard to see w...

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible; beauty is beheld by the imagination which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the sensible. The first step in the direction of truth ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man