Art Quote by Alec Monopoly

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

— Paul Laffoley

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own…

— J. August Richards

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what…

— Jonathan Winters

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli

“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm a painter"…

— Doug Stanhope

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack…

— Chuck Close

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been…

— Sarah Ruhl

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

— Francesco Clemente