Painting Quote by Edvard Munch

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

— Edvard Munch

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Johnson

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary

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

— Eric Kandel

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he…

— Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own…

— Anonymous