Areas Quote by Robert Ryan

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

— Andy Warhol

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live…

— Jamie Wyeth

I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my…

— Cindy Sherman

[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

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

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

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

— Anonymous

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

— Jonathan Shapiro

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to…

— Edgar Degas

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the…

— Giles Duley

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