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The Portrait QUOTES

The Portrait QUOTES

1 " But innocence is only pleasurable because it is transient. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait

2 " The walls are bare; look out of the window and you have a finer sight than any painter has ever placed on a piece of canvas. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait

3 " Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotizes, and your soul is washed by vastness. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait

4 " The painter without the critic is nothing. The good critic can make the mediocre famous, the great obscure. His power is limitless; the artist is his servant, and one day will recognize the fact. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait

5 " You are far more powerful than that, are you not? You change the way people think, shape the way they see the world. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait

6 " Still, beauty can flourish in even the most inhospitable terrain. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait

7 " You become the weather you live in. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait

8 " All you have to do is give people what they want, reflect themselves back into their own eyes, and they will fall over to crush money into your outstretched hand. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait

9 " I painted not what I saw but how you wished to be seen. "

― Iain Pears , The Portrait