Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 233 authors

I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because… — Christopher Bollen
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to… — James Whistler
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein… — Thomas Browne
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul… — Mark Twain
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust… — Mark Twain
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own...… — Leonardo da Vinci
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait. — Henri Matisse
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. — Vincent Van Gogh
In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct… — Auguste Rodin
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want? — Oriana Fallaci
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens… — Jacques Derrida
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. — Clement Greenberg
The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In… — Daniel H. Pink
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with… — Walter J. Phillips
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia… — Serge Schmemann
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente

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