With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg 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
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. — Francis Bacon 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
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
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
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
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
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
Hello, I'm iretntseed in doing a portraiture of myself. Could you tell me the price and its package (if available). Where would… — Chu Copy Share Image
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude. — Annie Leibovitz 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
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
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
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
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley 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
Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions… — Marvin Mudrick 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
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
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
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 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
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 will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from… — William Dobell 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
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing… — Burton Silverman 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
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
