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Definition of Portrait
Portrait
The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.

Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.

To portray; to draw.

Related Definitions:
Any, As, Commonly, Delineation, Description, Draw, Drawn, Engraved, Face, From, Graphic, Hence, Human, In, Life, Likeness, Of, Or, Painted, Person, Portrait, Portray, Real, Representation, The, To, Vivid






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

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



Portrait Translations
portrait in Danish is billede
portrait in Dutch is evenbeeld, beeltenis, portret
portrait in French is portrait
portrait in Portuguese is retrato
portrait in Spanish is retrato


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