Portraiture Quotes

50 Portraiture quotes by 46 unique authors

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. — Imogen Cunningham
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth. — Ingmar Bergman
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always… — Fay Godwin
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he… — Stephen Charnock
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st… — Will Cotton
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture… — Duane Michals
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his… — John Singer Sargent
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. — Otto Dix
Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of… — Jemima Kirke
There is no self-portrait of me. — Gustav Klimt
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is… — E. M. Forster
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed… — James Whistler
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
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another. — Michel de Montaigne
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. — Aldous Huxley
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso
Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. — Vincent Van Gogh
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies. — Edgar Degas
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to… — Vincent Van Gogh
Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we… — David Hockney

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