Trump’s tweets in his first hundred days draw a pretty clear portrait: he’s an almost textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder. – Stephen King
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely… Warhol. – Harvey Fierstein
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. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions – I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don’t always see that in other artists. – Jim Lee
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself. – Jamie Wyeth
A city is like a family portrait – you don’t tear it up if you don’t like your uncle’s nose. – Jaime Lerner
For years, I’ve had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing. – Jon Bon Jovi
My responsibility isn’t to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait. – Jhumpa Lahiri
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin’s granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine – oil on canvas – in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother’s house. – Jill Lepore
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what’s going on, but it’s representative. – Annie Leibovitz
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. – Anthony Powell
Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed. – Barbara Demick
I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it. – Ann Demeulemeester
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what’s going on, but it’s representative. – Annie Leibovitz
And then I went round the corner and there’s a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it’s not the level of Van Gogh. – David Hockney
I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn’t want the self pity of ‘The Portrait,’ all the moaning and the whingeing. I’m not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He’s the one who made so much possible. – Frank McCourt
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you. – Frida Kahlo
Even though I love my mother, I didn’t want to make an idealized portrait of her. I’m fascinated more by her defects – they are funnier than her other qualities. – Pedro Almodovar
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House. – Eleanor Clift
It is done… the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. – Dolley Madison
When I take a black-and-white portrait, it’s not particularly meant to please you. It’s meant to talk to you; it’s meant to shame you. It’s meant to scream out at you, and it has a message. – Don McCullin