It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
James Whistler

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
Helmut Newton

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
John Clayton

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.
Harvey Fierstein

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
Galen Rowell

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
Gabriel Lippmann

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
Jonathan Dimbleby

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.
Nadar

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
Joyce Maynard

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.
Dore Schary

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
Matthew Modine

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Alexander Smith

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.
Steven Soderbergh