#portrait

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#man #manners #mirror #portrait #shows

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

#anyone #artist #call #doodle #down

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#admire #artists #been #blonde #blonde hair

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

— Salvador Dali

#grow #his #i #i do #like

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

#agnostics #also #atheists #christians #communists

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house. ↗

— Willa Ford

#house #i #i do #paint #portraits

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. ↗

— Billy Hughes

#i #justice #mercy #painted #portrait

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#benjamin #benjamin franklin #constitution #credited #franklin

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

#away #days #i #i am #leave

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency? ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artwork #da-vinci #funny #george-washington #humor