Quotes About Portrait

If the Chandos portrait is not genuine, then we are left with two other possible likenesses to help us decide what William Shakespeare looked like. The first is the copperplate engraving that appeared as the frontispiece of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623—the famous First Folio.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

A good portrait can only be made by reconciling all our contradictory features, and it is not enough to follow through a series of mutually compatible qualities without reconciling their opposites; to understand an author's meaning all contradictory passages must be reconciled.

She was the portrait to his father's Dorian Gray – all the anxiety you'd expect him to feel was manifest in her.

But Catherine — or rather the Catherine of happy memory — had so much more. Even in her present invalid state, she enforced her hard, brilliant personality with a definiteness that reduced little Daphne to the pallor of a still-life pastel beside a strongly-coloured portrait in oils.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ... the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed ... And she was dead, dead, dead

When a portrait commences badly it's because you're not describing the woman you have in mind: you are thinking more about those who are going to look at the portrait than about the woman who is sitting for you.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

Kant fue criado como un "pietista", una versión del luteranismo que destacaba la simplicidad y evitaba la ornamentación externa. Consecuentemente no tenía retratos o pinturas en ninguna de las paredes de su casa, con una excepción: sobre su escritorio en su estudio colgó un retrato de Rousseau[39], y escribió: "He aprendido a honrar

Jeffrey Meyers' Modigliani: A Life,

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

I wasn't—" I began. I didn't—" He began. How charming," V'lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. She's on the floor, you're towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and I'll kill him.

it was far less likely that the fact that his picture was on

Third, nurture human nature. At the heart of twentieth-century economics stands the portrait of rational economic man: he has told us that we are self-interested, isolated, calculating, fixed in taste and dominant over nature—and his portrait has shaped who we have become. But human nature is far richer than this, as early sketches of our new self-portrait reveal: we are social, interdependent, approximating, fluid in values and dependent upon the living world.

Over the course of two centuries—from the 1770s to the 1970s, as economic man's depiction morphed from a nuanced portrait to a crude cartoon—what had started as a model of man had turned into a model for man.

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

An 'Ordinary Woman' is the beautiful and achingly poignant portrait of Gwen, a complex and troubled woman in her middle years.

The truth is, those who diligently seek to learn of Christ eventually will come to know Him. They will personally receive a divine portrait of the Master, although it most often comes in the form of a puzzle - one piece at a time.

He's beautiful," she said, an inadequate response in comparison to the strange lurch she felt in her belly. The eyes of the portrait seemed to stare right into her: "He looks sad." "That was painted just before he went to Magrast for the first time. He wasn't happy about leaving home.

At that time many of the men looked like Rupert Brooke, whose portrait still hung in everyone's imagination.

The code words will change with women's subconscious anxieties. But if women want out of an expensive belief system arranged to coerce us through these messages, we will read holy oil copy knowing that it is not about the product, but is an impressively accurate portrait of the hidden demons of our time.