Art Quote by Charles Tomlinson

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

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

— Gisele Freund

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is…

— David Levithan

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

— Elvis Presley

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 image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

— Elvis Presley

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

— e. e. cummings

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take…

— Hans Hofmann

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

— William Macneile Dixon

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

— Paul Caponigro