Top 14 Portrait In Death Quotes

#1. In 1856, shortly before his death, Lord Ellesmere gave the painting to the new National Portrait Gallery in London as its founding work. As the gallery's first acquisition, it has a certain sentimental prestige, but almost at once its authenticity was doubted.

Bill Bryson

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#2. Waning. He was perfectly safe there. Nor, indeed, was it the death of Basil Hallward that weighed most upon his mind. It was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his life.

Oscar Wilde

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#3. A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

Robert Hughes

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#4. Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

Studs Terkel

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#5. You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.

Brian Joyce

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#6. God is on the side of the winner.

Neil Strauss

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#7. I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

Martin Parr

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#8. was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his

Oscar Wilde

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#9. So long as we learn it doesn't matter who teaches us, does it?

E.R. Braithwaite

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#10. If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

Warren Buffett

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#11. I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

Heather Mills

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#12. I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.

Platon

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#13. Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them?

J.D. Robb

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#14. Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

Edward Young

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