#portrait

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

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#man #manners #mirror #portrait #shows

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#artists #envious #few #good #i

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#definitely #did #him #i #less

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. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#image #literally #may #point #point of view

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#get #good #i #interesting #mark

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#characters #dad #disney #donald #donald duck

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#find #image #just #photographs #portrait

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#except #good #himself #other #person

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#find #good #his #i #likeness