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“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, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.”
― Salvador Dalí

“How about I take you to my studio? Much less dangerous. Plus, I need a model and you could sit for me."
"You want me to sit for a portrait?" I asked stunned.
"Actually, at the moment I'm concentrating on full-length nudes, in the spirit of Modigliani," Jules said. He was making an effort to keep a straight face. "Just kidding, Kates. You're a lady."
Jules was trying the guilt-trip method of attack. And it was working.
"Ok I'll pose for you," I conceded. "But under no circumstances will any article of clothing leave my body whilst I am in your studio."
"And if you're elsewhere?" he asked, breaking into a sly smile.
I rolled my eyes.”
― Amy Plum, Until I Die

“when you take a photograph of someone, you take a portrait of their soul”
― Winna Efendi, Refrain

“...bahkan saat dunia berputar dan berubah,kenangan yang tercetak pada lembaran foto itu tidak pernah berubah. Photographs last for a lifetime.”
― Winna Efendi, Refrain

“When magic through nerves and reason passes,
Imagination, force, and passion will thunder.
The portrait of the world is changed.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.”
― Charles Dickens

“She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild quirkiness that made her dazzlingly attractive.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,â€� Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Der Mensch ist für mich ein Wesen, das nur durch paradoxe, komödiantische Mittel, Formen, dargestellt werden kann, denn der Mensch geht nicht auf wie eine Rechnung, und wo der Mensch so aufgeht, ist die Rechnung sicher gefälscht.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Pledge

“A person is a collage of people warring to become a portrait.”
― Jenim Dibie

“In some ways it began when I heard her singing
her voice twinning with my own
Her Voice was like a portrait of her soul
Wild as a fire, sharp as a shattered glass
Sweet and clean as clover”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“She listens to the history of her painting read aloud in court and finds it hard to associate her portrait, the little painting that has hung serenely on her bedroom wall, with such trauma, such globally significant events.”
― JoJo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“- You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce version illustrated by Brian Keogh

“I think of something I read about Sargent: how in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency that, once I knew to look for it, I saw everywhere in his work: in the long foxy noses and pointed ears of Sargent’s heiresses, in his rabbit-toothed intellectuals and leonine captains of industry, his plump, owl-faced children).”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Behind every selfportrait,
There's an idea I want to convey,
A pose, a concept, a quote;
I want to inteprete.

But most often than not : this is not about me.

It's about curves,
It's about light,
It's about motion,
And emotions.

At a certain period,
When artists wanted to represent themselves,
They had to sit and paint,
And lie and wait.

For hours.

And during those times they spent,
In layers and layers of colours,
They had to have this whole introspection process...

It's got to be.

Because it's about expressing something that comes from within.

It's about sharing a part of ourselves;
A part we'd rather keep secret.”
― Lora Kiddo

“Paint a portrait of love in your heart and you will feel loved.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen

“...of his family that he should be painted; he consented at length for his children's sake, but was disturbed when the portrait arrived: "I was but too much taken with my own shadow when it came home; but then I thought, a man should study both to be blameless and eminently active, that presumes to leave a picture behind him. If it put in mind of evil or of no good done by him, it is to little or bad purpose." The extreme Puritan would have rejected the idea of a portrait out of hand as a mortal vanity. p126”
― David Piper, The English Face

“The Greeks produced lively portraits and the aesthetes living ones, but perhaps we will be the first generation to wholly abandon the portrait in favor of life itself.”
― Michael Shindler

“Imagination is an invincible portrait.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“She would be asked to climb a low wooden platform in the hall and hold an expression for a class. Students would shuffle their gaze quickly, back and forth from her to their easels to get the details. She felt hugely self conscious to begin with, with two dozen eager eyes gazing at her, taking in her every detail, warts and all, her cheeks flushed and her folded leg trembling involuntarily. She would make an extra effort to cover her front teeth by pulling the lower lip over them. This and her self consciousness would tire her. But a few sessions down and she became used to the attention. And then, also she had also never known such leisure. This sitting idle had its benefits. She realised she would find solution to many a pending question. She would make little budgeting of her savings in her head. Her mind would move from matters of the canteen to Pali’s problem. At times she would so overcome with wretchedness that she would have to deliberately snap out of her thoughts and begin to inaudibly recite the mool mantar. However, all in all, she began to look forward to this. Like zero hour. At the end of what was a fortnight or twenty days of sitting, she was overwhelmed, looking at a studio full of her portraits.”
― Sakoon Singh, In The Land of The Lovers

“A Churchyard In Summertime by Stewart Stafford

O, to stand in a quiet country churchyard,
The graveyard bending in summer zephyrs,
Chlorophyll light beneath swaying poplars,
Rook song in twilight's nocturne.

Oblivious hues spread upon canvas,
Beside the somnambulant swanning river,
Miasmas of midges at the water's edge,
In the crosshairs of a painter's thumb.

Then the sun rolls away over the horizon,
A veil draws across the long day's play,
A churn supper collection of basket and easel,
Recollections in the slumbering night.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Every face has expression of a far more interesting and enduring kind than these momentary disturbances of its form occasioned by laughter or some passing thought, &c. And it must never be forgotten that a portrait is a panel painted to remain for centuries without movement. So that a large amount of the quality of repose must enter into its composition.”
― Harold Speed, The Practice and Science of Drawing

“She looked at the painting - so pastel, so peaceful. Somehow Ma's mind had pulled beauty from lunacy. Anyone looking at these portraits would think they portrayed the happiest of families, living on a seashore, playing in sunshine.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“A portrait can change its character depending on where it is placed and what light it receives.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“One more day, a precious gift of time,
A chance to mend, a rhythm to rhyme.
In the sunrise glow, hope finds its way,
A new chapter written in the book of today.”
― SYMPHONIES OF EVE By Elissar Benjamin

“To seek the sweetness of this moment...despite the treacherous tides of life....to find richness through an artistry that portrays the soul and its deepest layers...to seek tenderness in the encounters of life ...is to be a quiet rebel against all that is sharp and harsh...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

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“Nature as a Monet
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― Ana Claudia Antunes, "Geometry Of Designs" by Ana Bowlova