Character Quote by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better…

— August Strindberg

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

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

— Edvard Munch

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

He Self Portraits tend to be a reflection of our Heavenly Father and if you look deep into the eyes of these pictures, its…

— Christy Povolish

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is…

— David Levithan

Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very…

— Joyce Tenneson

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