The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir 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
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
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
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
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
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject.… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 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
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus 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
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg 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
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. — Aldous Huxley 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
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
