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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Lewis H. Lapham

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.

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.