Believe Quote by Mark Twain

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent

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

— Salvador Dali

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch

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

— Ceejay

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

— Francesco Clemente

“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till people come…

— P.G. Wodehouse

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

— Jamie Wyeth

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

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli