What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us. — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized… — Dale Purves Copy Share Image
Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully,… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
“Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality,… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
