Humans Quote by Philippe Halsman

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable…

— George Sarton

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the…

— Plutarch

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

— Edvard Munch

I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady…

— Rolf Harris

I sort of feel that the role of a portrait in society is to represent the sitters, we see paintings of Shakespeare and we…

— David Kassan

“How do I describe him now? Where do I start? How do I distill the first impression created in those few distance seconds? How…

— Dorit Rabinyan