Absurd Quote by David Cobley

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

— Otto Dix

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

— Salvador Dali

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

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

— Chuck Jones

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on…

— Lucian Freud

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

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

— Ceejay

I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter,…

— Lucian Freud

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw…

— Irving Stone