Portrait/politics

Famous quotes containing the words portrait and/or politics:

“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)

“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
—Cecil Parkinson (b. 1932)