Feelings Quote by Jamie Wyeth

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

— Francesco Clemente

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings,…

— Elizabeth Peyton

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw…

— Irving Stone

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— Salvador Dali

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

— Richard Diebenkorn

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it…

— Yousuf Karsh

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character…

— Robert Ryan

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

— Jose Parla