Portrait/history

Famous quotes containing the words portrait and/or history:

“It is the business of the critic, as of the portrait painter, to synthesize a million glances at his subject that will tell the onlooker at one glance the truth about him, as ultimate as he can get it.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)