Portrait Quotes

When I walk into my office, the other portraits that I look at in addition to (Thomas) Jefferson, the portraits of George Marshall, but especially Dean Acheson. - Dean Acheson

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

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. - Billy Joel

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. - Billy Hughes

What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place... In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire. - Ben Brantley

We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began collecting in a more serious fashion about then. - Julie Aronson

We're installing the base mural, and once we do, we'll sell portrait tiles to replace the tile on the base mural. - Cate Ervin

We're going to ask artists in each state where the exhibit travels to paint portraits of all the servicemen and women from their state who have been killed. The portraits would stay on permanent display at the museum in that state. - Annette Polan

We wrote our names in Egyptian and did scrolls. We made self-portraits as queens or pharaohs. - Michael Lane