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Portrait Quotes

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mirror Man Portrait Manners He His

I was a child prodigy. Like Michelangelo, who could draw a perfect circle at age five. I was extremely gifted. I could paint a perfect portrait of someone at age five.

Age Child Someone Portrait Perfect

The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.

Queen Fake Portrait Artist Table

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Push Portrait Wall Know Okay Image

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

People Lonely Portrait Quiet Leading

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

Great Time Song Doing Portrait Play

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

Process Portrait Anything Going Who

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

Time Portrait Lights Photographer Up

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

Heart Lie Portrait Lady Trio Henry

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

Marina Abramovic

Work Art Looking Energy Portrait

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

Job Portrait Photographer Seduce

When FDR died in 1945, he was still paralyzed from the waist down. After he died, his portrait was put on the dime. Through his illness, he went out of his way to minimize his difficulties. Of the thousands of pictures taken of him, only two show him in a leg brace or a wheelchair.

Portrait Down Pictures Way Him Out

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

Alexander Smith

Present Portrait Creation Own Sit

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

Good Best Portrait Artist Will

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Portrait Painter Related Romney

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

People Detail Portrait Be True True

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.

Personality Portrait Powerful Right

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?

Son God Best Portrait Possible

In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy.

Truth Great Walls Space Portrait

Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made.

Tradition Portrait First Made Defy

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Thought Portrait Happen Got Would

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy. Of course, you ask people to do something which they might not have done before, but that's the journey, the fun element.

Journey Fun People Sweet Portrait

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

Hands Portrait Done Safe Precious

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

Annie Leibovitz

View Portrait You Point Of View Room

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