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«Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.»
«A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.»
«In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.»
«A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.»
Author: Robert Hughes
(Author, Critic)
| Keywords:
Courbet, crucifixion, crucifixions, Gustave Courbet, portrait, Rubens
«In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue-collar nostalgia for a tough leader.»
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.»
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
Anything Else, architecture, literature, pictures, portrait
«A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
portrait
«Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.»
«I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Painting
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allegorical, paintings, portrait, Show Me
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