We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about… — Nelson Shanks 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
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
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
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
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most… — Peter Lindbergh 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
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors,… — Stephen Charnock 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
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 was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and… — Jules Breton 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
“All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in… — Guillermo del Toro 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
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
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
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
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. — Hilton Als 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
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
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that… — James Whistler 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
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
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
my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so… — William Dobell 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
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
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