Top Portrait Quotes

The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never p...

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

Portrait Definition

(n.) The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.

(n.) Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.

(v. t.) To portray; to draw.

In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

J'ai une passion pour les tulipes, plus que pour aucune autre fleur de printemps; gaies, robustes, gracieuses, elles semblent de jeunes filles sortant du bain à côté des jacinthes, ces femmes aux form...

Broken heart is flute.i blow into the flute & design walking portrait with empty pen

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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.

When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they h...

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.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what...

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached

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 t...