Art Quote by Julian Bream

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000…

— Shaquille O'Neal

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

— Cary Elwes

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

— Cleo Moore

I do portraits - my dad's an artist.

— Fearne Cotton

You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson.…

— Kehinde Wiley

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were.…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last…

— Pierce Brosnan

When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but…

— Alec Monopoly

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

— Bruce Campbell

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

— Timothy Simons