#trait

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

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#creditor #dreaded #dwelling #financial #savages

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#always #america #defending #difference #either

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#could #does #fill #greatest #i

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#money #portraits #professionally #you

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#more #office #portrait #saint #thomas

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. ↗

— Rob Walton

#army #camps #companies #concentration #dupont

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#every #feeling #painted #portrait #sitter

The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness. ↗

— Larry Williams

#confidence #fear #learn #manage #must