After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and… — Ron Parker 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
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I… — Kehinde Wiley 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
A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla 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
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
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
There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as… — Edgar Degas 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
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
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the… — Ingmar Bergman 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
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in… — Samuel Rutherford 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
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 am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop… — Mark Twain 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
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
I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but… — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats 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
