Artist Quote by Jamie Wyeth

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

— Ceejay

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

— Salvador Dali

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

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

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

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

— Francesco Clemente

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Edvard Munch