Quotes of: Portraits Keyword

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Salvador Dali

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

The Portrait of a Lady

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.

The Portrait of a Lady

Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.

The Portrait of a Lady

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting.

Victorian England: Portrait of an Age

With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait.

Life

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.

Self Portrait, Trina Schart Hyman

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals hi...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabiduría aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabiduría de los otros por sí mismo, errando entre las asechanzas del mundo.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/Dubliners

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Pablo Picasso

You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are ...

Lud-in-the-Mist

If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We construct a self-portrait, relying on existing objects – books, quotes from authors and artists, images, art – th...

Gabby Bess

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

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

- Do you know I love you ? - I'm sure I don't care whether you do or not !

The Portrait of a Lady