#portrait

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

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#begins #book #come #do not judge #ends

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#become #cartoon #first #i #idea

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#angles #being #being there #come #i

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#art #inaacuracy #perspective #photography #portraits

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

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death