Body Quote by Edgar Degas

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to…

— Edgar Degas

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

— Andy Warhol

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

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

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be…

— Judy Dater

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

— Paul Caponigro

[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

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

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

If I do a portrait, I know what they can take. If somebody's a sweet, shy person, the photographs will be sweet and shy.…

— Juergen Teller