Art Quote by Fearne Cotton

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of…

— Brett Dalton

In 1984, I was contacted by Michael Taylor, who had won a commission from a sponsor and decided he would like to paint a…

— Julian Bream

I want an exhibition one day, so I am doing portraits of rock stars. I paint from pictures in magazines.

— Fearne Cotton

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

— Mary Ellen Mark

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew…

— David Cobley

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

— William Dobell

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent

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

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

— Ira Glass

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

— Jacques-Louis David