Across Quote by Damien Chazelle

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live…

— Jamie Wyeth

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

— Francesco Clemente

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

— Ceejay

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

— Francisco Goya

You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson.…

— Kehinde Wiley

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

— Tanith Lee

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

— John Singer Sargent

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

— Salvador Dali

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

“I’ll go to church if you cut my hair tomorrow. But then you have to let me paint your portrait sometime.” “You paint?” I’m…

— Suzanne Young

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've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters, taking them to a ridiculous extent. But you do also meet those people in real…

— Julia Davis

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

— Charlie Brooker