#portrait

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#caricature #mixture #portraits #slight #those

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

#cemetery #gallery #i #living #metropolitan

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#company #consolation #friends #friendship #images

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

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#could #does #fill #greatest #i

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#money #portraits #professionally #you

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#more #office #portrait #saint #thomas

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

— James Whistler

#like #long #long time #look #man

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

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

#continue #exposure #fifteen #fifteen minutes #first