Long time Quote by Jandy Nelson

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“How do I describe him now? Where do I start? How do I distill the first impression created in those few distance seconds? How…

— Dorit Rabinyan

“I concentrated on his eyes and his facial expression. Those said a lot about a person. I’d noticed that his eyes changed color based…

— Marysue G. Hobika

“I think that a good portrait reveals a suggestion of the subject’s mind, and not just a representation of how they look. It’s by…

— Elizabeth Ross

“Um, well, I'm sure to the untrained eye, this drawing may seem like one of mine. But if you look closer, you'll see it's…

— Bubbles

“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A face like yours makes men stumble over themselves.” He tilted his head to look at me through a new angle. “Faces like yours…

— Belle Aurora

“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as…

— Celeste Ng

“The lines are careful. They reveal he pays attention. People don’t think he does, because he daydreams and skips class and neglects his homework,…

— Stephanie Perkins

“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at a distance…

— John Bunyan

“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you, but in…

— G. Norman Lippert

“I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that's all you see. Oh, and I used a nice frame.…

— Jarod Kintz