Done Quote by Michael Crichton

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

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

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

— Clement Greenberg

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

— Francesco Clemente

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

— Albert Einstein

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to…

— Jacob Epstein

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist…

— Shana Alexander

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still…

— Robert Watson-Watt

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

— Bob Ross

People often think of artists and scientists as being diametrically opposed, but we both believe something is possible. We have a hypothesis and then…

— Mira Calix