Disability 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

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

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

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so…

— Chuck Close

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost…

— William Morris Hunt

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

— Francesco Clemente

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

— Salvador Dali

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

— William Dobell

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

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good…

— Umberto Eco