Portrait in Korean Currency Notes
Sejong the Great is one of the five linguistic scholars, with Samuel Johnson, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm and Elias Lönnrot, depicted as a portrait in a national currency.
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Famous quotes containing the words portrait, currency and/or notes:
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic
structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“The drama critic on your paper said my chablis-tinted hair was like a soft halo over wide set, inviting eyes, and my mouth, my mouth was a lush tunnel through which golden notes came.”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)