Portrait Quotes

Your library is your portrait. - Holbrook Jackson

You will regret that cell-phone self-portrait in the bathroom mirror one day. - Unknown

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 know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. - Otto Dix

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 start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg. - Pablo Picasso

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. - Pablo Picasso

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

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories. - Danica McKellar