{"quotes":[{"text":"When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.","author":"Louis Theroux","tags":["portrait","doing","you "],"id":1457,"author_id":"Louis+Theroux"},{"text":"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.","author":"Joyce Maynard","tags":["parents","portrait"],"id":3062,"author_id":"Joyce+Maynard"},{"text":"When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["changed","circling","dejan-stojanovic","force","imagination","literature","literature","magic","nerves","passion","poetry","poetry","portrait","quotes","to-live-by","reason","thoughts","thunder","wisdom","world"],"id":5530,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["description","pictures","poetry","portrait","simile","words"],"id":16095,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.","author":"David duChemin","tags":["people-skills","photography","portrait","street-photography","travel"],"id":36806,"author_id":"David+duChemin"},{"text":"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["art","portrait"],"id":147128,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what he or she knows and settles within via strategic thinking.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["big-dreams","construction","dream","dream-big","dreams","focus","frame","israelmore-ayivor","knowledge","perceive","perception","portrait","settle","strategic","strategic-thinking","strategy","think","thinking","vision","visions"],"id":165958,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.","author":"Charles Dickens","tags":["art","expression","portrait","serious"],"id":208422,"author_id":"Charles+Dickens"},{"text":"In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.","author":"Raphael Millet","tags":["100-singaporeans","epigram-books","photography","portrait","raphael-millet","singapore","singaporean","wee-editions","wesley-loh"],"id":218895,"author_id":"Raphael+Millet"},{"text":"The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.","author":"Tom Carter","tags":["art","china","chinese","photography","photography-book","photos","portrait","tom-carter","travel"],"id":223046,"author_id":"Tom+Carter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}