Painting Quote by Otto Dix

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

— Francesco Clemente

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 person grow to look like his portrait.

— Salvador Dali

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

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

— Ceejay

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter…

— Walter J. Phillips

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

— William Dobell

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism…

— David Cobley

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw…

— Irving Stone

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality.…

— Alton Tobey