#trait

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

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#mind #slain #solitude #taken #traitor

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#favor #forms #his #imagination #moment

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

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. ↗

— Erica Jong

#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#burned #came #fellowship #good #here

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. ↗

— John Selden

#call #heels #his #man #tis

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#emily #fervently #gods #gotten #herman

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doubts #fearing #good #lose #make

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#been #being #could #further #i