Portraits Quotes

Portraits Quotes

Sir Max Beerbohm

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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.

Oliver Cromwell

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, ...

Charles Dickens

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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

George Eliot

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have ...

Benjamin Haydon

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight ...

Samuel Johnson

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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

Paul Klee

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to ...

Pablo Picasso

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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 ...

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