Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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?

Minor White

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

Maria Shriver

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

Mark Gatiss

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

Mary-Louise Parker

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

Lauren Oliver

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Paul Cezanne

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

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

Nigel Farage

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

Mary Ellen Mark

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Michael Faraday

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

Helmut Newton

It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

Ray Kurzweil

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

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

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.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Robert Hughes

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

Roland Barthes

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

Tommy Lasorda

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

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.