Painted Portraits

Famous quotes containing the words painted and/or portraits:

    “He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
    With his name painted clearly on each:
    But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
    They were all left behind on the beach.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can’t hear yourself speak.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)