Half Quote by Francesco Clemente

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

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

— Edvard Munch

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

— Richard Avedon

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

— Salvador Dali

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

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

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

— Salvador Dali

If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it…

— Yousuf Karsh