Effort Quote by Salvador Dali

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

— Gisele Freund

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but…

— Richard Avedon

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the…

— Imogen Cunningham

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

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

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

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 do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

— Salvador Dali

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

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

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

— Richard Avedon