Direction Quote by Robert Indiana

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

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

— Anonymous

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

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

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings…

— Kehinde Wiley

As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them…

— Richard Schmid

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good…

— Umberto Eco

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

— Francesco Clemente

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe