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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

— Salvador Dali

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

— Francesco Clemente

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography…

— Aubrey Beardsley

I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

— Jamie Wyeth

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

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in…

— John Singer Sargent

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler