Paint Quote by Jamie Wyeth Download Open image “Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.” — Jamie Wyeth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Paint Painting Portraits Portraiture Subjects
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject,rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait. — Ceejay Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people,… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint. — Frank Marshall Davis Copy Share Image
