Beauty Quote by Igor Babailov

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

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

— Gertrude Atherton

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

— Jamie Wyeth

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

— Kenneth Clark

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“I think of something I read about Sargent: how in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency that, once…

— Donna Tartt

“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 you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a…

— Kevin Costner

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

— Daniel Sharman

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

— Storm Reid

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

— Samuel L. Jackson

I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who…

— Nathan Fillion

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize…

— Jonathan Dee

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

— Elyn Saks

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

— Albert Einstein