When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
There are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have… — Albert Watson Copy Share Image
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors,… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose.… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
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