Win The Life

Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits stuck over a laborer's fireplace will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.-Macmillan Magazine

 

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.-John Singer Sargent

 

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.-Lewis H. Lapham

 

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.-Thomas B. Macaulay

 

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.-Georg C. Lichtenberg

 

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

 

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.-Michael Shermer

 

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.-Billy Hughes

 

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.-Edvard Munch

 

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 know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.-Otto Dix

 

Your library is your portrait.-Holbrook Jackson

 

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

 

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

 

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.-James Whistler

 

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

 

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.-John Clayton

 

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.-Harvey Fierstein

 

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.-Berenice Abbott

 

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.-Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

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.-Galen Rowell

 

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.-Gabriel Lippmann

 

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.-Jonathan Dimbleby

 

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.-Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.-Nadar

 

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

 

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.-Meryl Streep

 

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.-Dore Schary

 

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.-Charles Dickens

 

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.-Matthew Modine

 

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

 

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.-Steven Soderbergh

 

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.-John Singer Sargent

 

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.-Philippe Halsman

 

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.-David Hockney

 

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

 

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.-Pedro Almodovar

 

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

 

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

 

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.-John Singer Sargent

 

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

 

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

 

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.-Rachel Griffiths

 

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.-Samuel Johnson

 

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 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

 

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.-Karl Lagerfeld

 

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.-Rene Auberjonois

 

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

 

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?-John Clayton

 

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