Attitude Quote by Edgar Degas

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

— Edgar Degas

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of…

— Thomas Ruff

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

— Edvard Munch

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

— Andy Warhol

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

[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

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

— Edgar Degas

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the…

— Plutarch