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
It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have… — Albert Watson Copy Share Image
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we… — Vincent Van Gogh 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
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance. — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting. — Titian Copy Share Image
Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling… — Roman Genn Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen.… — Jerusha Hess Copy Share Image
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
