Top Portraits Quotes
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner
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
I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
Willa Ford
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Georg Baselitz 
Thomas B. Macaulay 
Gustav Klimt 
Howard Hodgkin 
Robert Ryan 
Edvard Munch 
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein 
75% of people like this quote
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner
62% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.
Willa Ford
55% of people like this quote
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
54% of people like this quote
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.
Robert Ryan
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
Imogen Cunningham
52% of people like this quote
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
Fay Godwin
52% of people like this quote
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