#portrait

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

— Anthony Powell

#ever #felt #few #going #inferior

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#man #manners #mirror #portrait #shows

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

#family #found #good #greater #how

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

— Charles Dickens

#expression #portrait #serious #art

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me. ↗

— Tom Carter

#china #chinese #photography #photography-book #photos

You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists. For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich may be the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with ever modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting. And, finally, it is your own face that you are staring at in terror, as in a mirror by candlelight, when all the house is still. ↗

— Hope Mirrlees

#faces #friendship #portraiture #when-all-the-house-is-still #friendship

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

#anybody #draw #girlfriends #i #i think

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. ↗

— James Whistler

#like #long #long time #look #man

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#every #feeling #painted #portrait #sitter