Daniel Maclise (whose 1839 oil of Dickens hangs today at…

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a…

— Thomas Frank

“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history),…

— A.S. Byatt

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

— Mark Gatiss

“Society.” John Forster, who would one day become Dickens’s great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens had excelled…

— Les Standiford

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or…

— Garry Trudeau

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent

“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of humour. Is…

— Waswo X Waswo

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much…

— Richard Avedon

I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the…

— Alex Haley

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

— Ira Glass

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

— Mary Ellen Mark

“when you take a photograph of someone, you take a portrait of their soul”

— Winna Efendi

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson