If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary. — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
“All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in… — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but… — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Hello, I'm iretntseed in doing a portraiture of myself. Could you tell me the price and its package (if available). Where would… — Chu Copy Share Image
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and… — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting. — Titian Copy Share Image
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
