Behave Quote by Thomas Ruff

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

— Richard Avedon

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

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

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

— Lucian Freud

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

— Edvard Munch

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel

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

— Francesco Clemente

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

— Ari Marcopoulos

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

— Andy Warhol

If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it…

— Yousuf Karsh