Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Maria Altmann

I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.

Alfred Stieglitz

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Mark Gatiss

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

George H. W. Bush

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Patrick Ness

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

Nelson Mandela

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Ernest Holmes

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

Jack Canfield

What is the why behind everything you do?

Martin McDonagh

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Stevie Smith

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.