Quotes with portraits

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• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

  Lewis H. Lapham
  American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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• The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

  Thomas B. Macaulay
  American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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• 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. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

  Billy Joel
  American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• tax-deductible
• journalists
• constructed
• themselves
• hammering
• yourself

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