Quotes of: Portraits Keyword

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly ...

China: Portrait of a People

The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers.

Latin

My envy's not dangerous; it wouldn't hurt a mouse.

The Portrait of a Lady

You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.

The B-Side Diaries

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

The Portrait of a Lady

There are absolutely no rules in art

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

The Portrait of a Lady

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

The Portrait of a Lady

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Jerry Saltz

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

The Portrait of a Lady

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

The Portrait of a Lady

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

The Portrait of a Lady

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

Terrence Howard

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.

Eleanor Clift

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

Fred Gwynne

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

41: A Portrait of My Father

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man