#portrait

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

— Samuel Johnson

#dog #had #i #know #me

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

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#completely #portrait #process #progression #random

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#character #full #life #me #moment

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#caricature #mixture #portraits #slight #those

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#been #bouncing #challenge #city #first

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#portrait #art

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#books #burn #curious #draw #father

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ↗

— John Singer Sargent

#every time #friend #i #lose #paint

This is my own personal logo ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clever-logo #clever-logos #design #digital #illustrator