'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.
Walton Goggins
PortraitGreyStateOurOurselves
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
PortraitArtistFeelingEverySitter
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
Barry Humphries
CityWorldComedyHometownPortrait
I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.
Andrew Cuomo
PortraitMoreOfficeSaintThomas
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
John Singer Sargent
PaintingPortraitMouthWrong
I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.
Spike Jonze
BeginningEndPortraitYouPerson
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.
Rose George
HomeQueenMePortraitCourtesyTwo
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
Joyce Maynard
ParentsPortraitComplicatedDrawn
'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.
Douglas Brunt
PowerPoliticsMePoliticalPortrait
'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
Annalee Newitz
RedActionPortraitNeverSoldiers
Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.
Twyla Tharp
TimeHandsPortraitPenNobodyOld
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.
Richard Avedon
KnowledgePictureSomeonePortrait
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Jane Campion
FreedomResponsibilityThinkPortrait
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Frida Kahlo
I AmPortraitYouWillLeaveDays
In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity - the Donald J. Trump Foundation - to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself during a fundraiser auction at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
David Fahrenthold
FoundationCharityPortraitFlorida
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
Nick Carter
LoveRomanticThinkPortraitYou
I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.
Frank McCourt
SelfPortraitWantDebtPossible
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
WorkMusicArchitectureManPortrait
The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.
Nadar
BestPortraitPersonKnow
Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
Barbara Demick
WalkingPortraitDownStreetWill
I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.
Jim Lee
WorkBookPortraitFindTrySee
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm
NatureManLawPortraitSitObvious
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
FriendAgeTimePortraitLosePaint
Hillary Clinton is one of the most compelling figures in the world today... and Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait shows us, for the first time, the true trajectory of her life and career.
Sonny Mehta
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