#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 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

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. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#camera #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #his

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

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#man #manners #mirror #portrait #shows

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#i #interested #literary #loved #many

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. ↗

— Otto Dix

#know #paints #portrait #possible #should

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#money #paint #people #photography #portraits

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#cosmetic #doctor #full #going #i