Controlled Quote by Chuck Close

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a…

— Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack…

— Chuck Close

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

— Andy Warhol

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

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be…

— Annie Leibovitz

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings…

— Kehinde Wiley

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

— Francesco Clemente

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

— Leonardo da Vinci

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the…

— Kiki Smith

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a…

— Hilary Hahn

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