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Your library is your portrait.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.
The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
I'm a big historian. Big JFK fan. I got to take a picture under the official JFK White House portrait.
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
For fragrance, I only wear Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. People at work know I'm there when they smell it.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
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.
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.
An 'Ordinary Woman' is the beautiful and achingly poignant portrait of Gwen, a complex and troubled woman in her middle years.
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.
'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.
Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.