Accuracy Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Anonymous

[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

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

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

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

Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable…

— George Sarton

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

— Edvard Munch

“I think that a good portrait reveals a suggestion of the subject’s mind, and not just a representation of how they look. It’s by…

— Elizabeth Ross

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

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary