Quotes about Portraits

five years work many changes. At the end of a war all our portraits are out of date: the timid man had been given a gun to slay with, and the brave man had found is nerve fail him in the barrage.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.