This collection holds 357 portraits quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Holbrook Jackson, Byron York and Gustav Klimt.

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Your library is your portrait.

A remarkably revealing portrait.

There is no self-portrait of me.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

All photographs are self-portraits.

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

What I really do is make portraits of the soul.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

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

Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.

I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

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

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.

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