Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Mary Ellen Mark

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

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.

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.

Richard Avedon

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

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

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.

Roland Barthes

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

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.

Tommy Lasorda

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

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.

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.