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I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

— Jeff Tweedy

“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with…

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

— John Currin

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

— Irving Penn

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

— Josh Ritter

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

— Noel Gallagher

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

— Gisele Freund

“suffering unspeakable torture at the thought of leaving his picture as it was, disfigured by an ugly, gaping wound. (49)”

— Émile Zola

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

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

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman