Attention Quote by Plutarch

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul…

— Annie Leibovitz

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he…

— Samuel Butler

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

— Edvard Munch

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's…

— Igor Babailov

“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You…

— Hope Mirrlees

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

— Otto Dix

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he…

— Auguste Rodin

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“when you take a photograph of someone, you take a portrait of their soul”

— Winna Efendi

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a…

— Benjamin Haydon