Artist Quote by Gregory Maguire

“...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

“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

“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you, but in…

— G. Norman Lippert

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All…

— John Fowles

“Like all paintings, the portrait was ruined at the first stroke of paint; it would never be exactly as she had imagined it, and…

— Christopher Bollen

“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem…

— Oscar Wilde

“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to paint is…

— Galib Mammadov

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

“...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

“From underneath my hair, I study him. I know from doing portraits that you have to look at someone a really long time to…

— Jandy Nelson