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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter [on aestheticism]
View quotes by Oscar Wilde

And that's a self-portrait of himself, by himself.
View quotes by Richard Madeley

Who can take
Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat
View quotes by Edward Young

'A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.'
View quotes by John Singer Sargent

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait
View quotes by James McNeil Whistler

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
View quotes by John Singer Sargent

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
View quotes by Samuel Butler

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
View quotes by Robert Hughes

I hope they don't let Brett Lee anywhere near it [a portrait of himself] with a black pen because I might end up with a moustache like Merv Hughes's
View quotes by Shane Warne

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were.
View quotes by Philippe Halsman



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