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
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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
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
Fay Godwin
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