I never could have predicted that I would have done…

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

— Ron Parker

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look…

— LeRoy Neiman

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of…

— Beat Streuli

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

— Edgar Degas

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more…

— Edouard Manet

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

— Pablo Picasso

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

— Charles Baudelaire

The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter…

— Walter J. Phillips

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible,…

— Martin Schoeller

In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel…

— Ken Kalfus

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

— Nathan Oliveira

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's…

— Kehinde Wiley

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in…

— John Singer Sargent

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

— Ingmar Bergman