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portraits
«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.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
art museums, cemetery, deductible, galleries, gallery, museum, pass by, portraits, tax deductible
«I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.»
Author: Rita Rudner
(Comedian, Writer)
| Keywords:
cosmetic, cosmetics, cosmetic surgery, noticed, Picasso, portraits, surgery, The Doctor
«We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
chimneys, distrustfully, grim, oaken, panel, paneling, portraits
«It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
association, dearly, likeness, memorial, memorials, monstrous, nearness, noblest, portraits, sanctification, The Association
«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.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| Keywords:
constructed, hammering, portraits, put up, take down, The temple, wooden
