Best Portraiture Quotes

50 Portraiture quotes by 46 unique authors

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even… — Willem de Kooning
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. — Paul Cezanne
There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or… — Edouard Manet
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
My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head. — Jimmy Durante
I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in… — Leon Battista Alberti
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation… — Plotinus
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
It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in… — LeRoy Neiman
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when… — LeRoy Neiman
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
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente
The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon… — Robert Genn
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of… — Richard Schmid
I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we… — Oliver Jeffers
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make… — Burton Silverman
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization. — Joe Fafard
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. — Antony Sher
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude. — Annie Leibovitz
One can, in principle, outline sort of a set of neural circuits that are critically involved and even identify disorders that affect different components of… — Eric Kandel
Hello, I'm iretntseed in doing a portraiture of myself. Could you tell me the price and its package (if available). Where would the photoshoot be… — Chu

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