Art Quote by James Whistler

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were.…

— Ellen DeGeneres

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings…

— Mos Def

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and…

— Jeff Koons

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the…

— Henri Matisse

It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so…

— Morris Graves

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

— Romare Bearden

The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body…

— Leon Battista Alberti

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