Painting Quote by Elizabeth Ross

“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as…

— Celeste Ng

“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly applied emulsion,…

— Elizabeth Ross

“I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that's all you see. Oh, and I used a nice frame.…

— Jarod Kintz

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“I believe we can only see ourselves in shards of who we really are. Those who care and love us see us whole and…

— Chloe Sierra Goodell

“Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it.”

— Charles F. Glassman

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

“But the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people…

— Celeste Ng

“But I do not want to paint our circumstantial portraits so that we both emerge with enough well-rounded, spuriously detailed actuality that you are…

— Angela Carter

“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You…

— Hope Mirrlees

“In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before me. Not…

— Elizabeth Ross

“when you take a photograph of someone, you take a portrait of their soul”

— Winna Efendi