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«That's what an obit is supposed to be-a picture, a snapshot. It's not a full-length biography, it's not a portrait. It's a quick picture.»
«The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.»
«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.»
«The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
countenance, countenanced, countenances, informer, informers, portrait, The Informer
«Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.»
«The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.»
Author: William MacNeile Dixon
| About:
Facts,
The Present
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cluttered, portrait, vibrate, vibrated, Vibrates, vibrating
«There are only two styles of portrait painting, the serious and the smirk»
«Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.»
«Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.»
«The portrait of a blinking idiot.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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blink, blinked, blinking, blinks, idiot, portrait
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