Answers Quote by Patrick Demarchelier

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

— Nadar

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world

— Samuel Johnson

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

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

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

— Edvard Munch

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

“What kind of dog is the most colorful? A: Paint Bernard!”

— Uncle Amon

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

— Alexander Pope

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

I happened to take a photo, and there was my wife, my dog and my banjo, all in the same shot - and I…

— Steve Martin

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

— Anonymous