Portraiture Quotes
50 Portraiture quotes by 46 unique authors
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The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
— Imogen Cunningham
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
— Otto Dix
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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
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There is no self-portrait of me.
— Gustav Klimt
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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
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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
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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
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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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
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When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
— Pablo Picasso
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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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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
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Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
— Charles Baudelaire
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Portraiture Quotes
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