Painting Quote by Jon Witcomb

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium…

— Irving Penn

I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives…

— Kehinde Wiley

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

— Annie Leibovitz

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings…

— Kehinde Wiley

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

— Mary Ellen Mark

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

— Salvador Dali

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

— Anthony Powell

In a portrait, there is a place for every one's point of view..And the portrait may not be exactly what the point of views…

— Santanu Mishra

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley