Famous Quotes & Sayings

Otto Dix

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Plotinus

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Robert Harris

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Robert Rauschenberg

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

Sarah Ruhl

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

Robert Hughes

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Jean Cocteau

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

George Eliot

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

It's a strange situation to have one set of regulations in one port and not in others, isn't it?

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Tim Thomas

I don't want to say there's not a problem with that (waivers) portion of the CBA just because I made it through.

Pierce Brosnan

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

Oriana Fallaci

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Frank Gaffney

Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

Lucian Freud

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Maria Shriver

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

Lauren Oliver

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Paul Cezanne

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

Mary-Louise Parker

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

Mark Gatiss

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

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Yousuf Karsh

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.