Portrait Quotes

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.

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.

There is no self-portrait of me.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I’m a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening – figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.