Essentials Quote by Kehinde Wiley

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the…

— Kiki Smith

“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

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

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

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the…

— Henri Matisse

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a…

— Tim Walker

Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.

— Jon Witcomb

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

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a…

— Hilary Hahn

“But I do not want to paint our circumstantial portraits so that we both emerge with enough well-rounded, spuriously detailed actuality that you are…

— Angela Carter

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

— Amy Sherald