96 Portrait Quotes for You to Enjoy

In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity - the Donald J. Trump Foundation - to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself during a fundraiser auction at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. David Fahrenthold

Buy Charity Club Spent Himself Auction His Trump Donald Donald Trump Foundation Florida Portrait Belonged

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. David Hockney

Love You Think Corner Van Van Gogh Higher Higher Level Well Another Gogh Just Then Round Actually Level Portrait

When FDR died in 1945, he was still paralyzed from the waist down. After he died, his portrait was put on the dime. Through his illness, he went out of his way to minimize his difficulties. Of the thousands of pictures taken of him, only two show him in a leg brace or a wheelchair. David Oshinsky

Down Difficulties Way Dime Minimize Out Thousands Paralyzed Only Through He Taken Put Pictures Him Still Waist His His Way Leg Died Wheelchair After Show Illness Portrait Two

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. Dolley Madison

Safe Gentlemen Precious Hands Done Placed Keeping Portrait

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street. Douglas Brunt

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

Good Enemies Find Likeness Always His Person Paint Portrait

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest. Ellsworth Kelly

Great People Guess Drawing Had Supposed Know Because Real Very Owned Expensive England Seals Painters Portrait Earliest

I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful. Francisco Goya

Success Me Tired Wife Girl Other Honours Thousand Arenas Excellency Had Feel Returned Boy Been His Very Unexpected Just Artists Successful Painted Portrait Loaded

I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible. Frank McCourt

Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the magic! I don't always achieve it. It's a hit or a miss! Gerard Malanga

Achieve Locate Photo Magic Someone Miss Reaching Always Hit Person Trying Whenever Psychologically While Lens Portrait

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

Work Other Definitely Some He Stuff Him Did Rabbit Warhol Then Worked Less Play Actually Things Portrait

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. Helmut Newton

Job Entertain Photographer Seduce Portrait Amuse

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Me You Try Skin Difficult Put Between Most Most Difficult Thing Camera His Shirt Person Your Thing Portrait Difficult Thing

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Irving Penn

Joy World Severe Reader Greatest Subject May Interesting Portrait

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Irving Penn

Woman Joy World Responsibility Severe Intrigue Photographers Vogue Feed Feel Reader Client Greatest Reads Stimulate Subject Trying May Interesting Kansas Who Many Her Portrait

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. James Whistler

Time Man Long Long Time Takes Like Look His Portrait

What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009. Jason Reitman

Air Indicative Feel Most Up Film Portrait

'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal. Jerome Charyn

Man Battle Black Angel Poet Narcissism Energy Gone Difficult Sides Relentless Gifted Angelic Self Between Empire Gore Himself Demonic Very Loving Little Epic Jay Deep Novelist Portrait

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house. Jill Lepore

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent

Time Age Lose Every Every Time Friend Paint Portrait

In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments. John Van Hamersveld

Art World School Old Black Made Black And White Style White Corporate Drawing Out Poster Johnny Had Around Years Art School Departments Just Sent Turning Created Portrait

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