Portraits Quotes

We bought portraits and blazers for each of the champs. I remember Bill asking me how we were going to pay for that. We decided to raise the sponsor fees for the bowlers from $50 to $100. That paid for the blazers. - Harry Wells

We basically started by going outside shooting. I told the boys that I wanted them to capture images of themselves that express who they are as portraits, without including their faces. - Gail Porter

They're self-portraits of the way that I feel about myself physically as opposed to the way society makes me feel about myself. - Sarah Reeves

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. - Gustav Klimt

The portraits people will see in the show are from a phase of Dunn's career that most of his fans don't know about. He regularly did portraits of his friends, and a lot of figure painting as well. I think he mainly did it for recreation and didn't charge them for the work, or if he did it was very seldom. - Walt Reed

The portraits of Dora Maar are among the most popular and most important works that he did. For the better part of a decade she was his muse, his model, his intellectual companion, his intellectual sparring partner. - Charles Moffett

The people are what always makes the film for me. My films are little portraits for me that make a much bigger portrait. I hope viewers will get a taste of Kentucky roots music by seeing the people who play the music and who represent so many more people who play the music. - Roger Sherman

The off-center portrait (of Lincoln and Hamilton) has been enlarged; the fine lines printed behind both the portraits are now much more difficult to replicate than the earlier original. - Lawrence Summers

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The children created pop art portraits of themselves by tracing over a digital picture on the computer. It certainly added something extra. At the end of the class, they couldn't believe that it was already playtime. - James McBride