Character Quote by Charles Baudelaire

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

— Gisele Freund

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality.…

— Alton Tobey

“I think that a good portrait reveals a suggestion of the subject’s mind, and not just a representation of how they look. It’s by…

— Elizabeth Ross

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

— Anthony Powell

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that…

— Paul Strand

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

— Otto Dix

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he…

— Samuel Butler

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the…

— Giles Duley