Portraits Quotes

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. - William Butler Yeats

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. - Jawaharlal Nehru

You could call it a collection of self-portraits. Each photographer has really photographed himself. - Isabelle Huppert

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. - Imogen Cunningham

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 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

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

We wanted an image of Zachariah Connell, but no portraits are known to exist, so we created a hypothetical one, based on period dress and Connell's profession. - Tony Grasso

We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls. - Charles Dickens