Artist Quote by Oscar Wilde

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the…

— Oscar Wilde

“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who,…

— Oscar Wilde

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. the sitter is merely the accident, the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not…

— Oscar Wilde

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the…

— Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

— Oscar Wilde

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

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

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley

I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even when I…

— Toyin Odutola

I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume…

— Alice Neel

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

— Alexander Smith