“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“I said before the elections and repeat now -- don't rush to change the portraits. The country has a president and an active president at that.”
Boris Yeltsin
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“Your library is your portrait.”
Holbrook Jackson
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
Frida Kahlo
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
Salvador Dalí
“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.”
Rita Rudner
