A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
John Singer Sargent

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
Philippe Halsman

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
David Hockney

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
Eleanor Clift

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
Pedro Almodovar

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

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
Rachel Griffiths

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Frida Kahlo

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
Nick Carter

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
Karl Lagerfeld

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.
Rene Auberjonois

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Annie Leibovitz

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
John Clayton

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
Dolley Madison