Top Portrait Quotes
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
Michael Shermer
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
Eleanor Clift
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Michael Shermer 
David Hockney 
Salvador Dali 
Meryl Streep 
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Berenice Abbott 
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
Michael Shermer 
65% of people like this quote
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
58% of people like this quote
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
Eleanor Clift
58% of people like this quote
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
57% of people like this quote
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
57% of people like this quote
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott
56% of people like this quote
The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.
Dore Schary
56% of people like this quote
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
Matthew Modine
56% of people like this quote
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Oscar WildeJohann Wolfgang von GoetheSamuel JohnsonMarcus Tullius CiceroSamuel ButlerRobert Louis StevensonPablo PicassoCharles DickensMeryl StreepAnnie LeibovitzHarvey FiersteinMax BeerbohmSalvador DaliSteven SoderberghEdvard Munch
Alexander SmithJoyce MaynardGalen RowellDavid HockneyJohn ClaytonKarl LagerfeldMichael ShermerRachel GriffithsPedro AlmodovarRene AuberjonoisJonathan DimblebyMatthew ModineEleanor CliftHenri Cartier-BressonHelmut Newton
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