Lying Quote by Jacques-Louis David

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

— Edvard Munch

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

— Oriana Fallaci

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.

— Steve Lawrence

I will keep painting until I die.

— Yayoi Kusama

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

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

— Ceejay

“But I do not want to paint our circumstantial portraits so that we both emerge with enough well-rounded, spuriously detailed actuality that you are…

— Angela Carter

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

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

— Paul Valery

I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into…

— Rene Ricard

My life will be a masterpiece to me... For I intend to paint it.

— Cv Pillay