In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America… — Will Cotton 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
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather… — Joe Fafard 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
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
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in… — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose.… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure… — Leon Battista Alberti 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 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
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
