Admiration Quote by Auguste Rodin

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's…

— Igor Babailov

The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a…

— Francis Galton

A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he…

— Rudolf Steiner

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

— Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

— Blaise Pascal

“And, as in the case of sensible images, if the artist look without distraction upon the archetypal form, not distracted by sight of anything…

— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

— Anonymous

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better…

— August Strindberg

If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it…

— Yousuf Karsh

I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the…

— Plutarch