Evening Quote by Emily Dickinson

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives…

— Kehinde Wiley

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening…

— Gustav Klimt

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

— Judy Dater

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

— Anonymous

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a…

— Tim Walker

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

What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own…

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— Samuel Johnson