Sentence examples for good portrait from inspiring English sources

The proletarians have voted that it's a good portrait".

A good portrait, artists say, should capture a subject's spirit.

If mere likeness were the criterion of a good portrait then Rembrandt would now be forgotten.

In short, the stimulus debate offers a pretty good portrait of the men and woman who would be president.

Unger actually gives a very good portrait of the élite world of money, oil, and political power in which the Bushes move so naturally.

The mother of the children, sweet and wonderful as she is, is also a good portrait of the writer as sole breadwinner for a family.

(By happenstance, the Frick has a concurrent show of pretty good portraits by Murillo in its basement galleries).

I think that good portraits are about having someone look you in the eyes or looking into somebody's eyes and slowing down the process.

"A week after the assassination of President John Kennedy, the new President called me in and asked me to take some good portraits of him.

He was, she said in an off the cuff verdict, "extremely bad, sentimental and melodramatic, but a marvellous draughtsman with a gift for unexpectedly good portraits".

It's just that in very good portraits — such as these of Maude Schuyler Clay's — there's a lot to experience, and the more of ourselves and of the pictures we engage the better it is for everybody.