Art Quote by Umberto Boccioni

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful;…

— Henry David Thoreau

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

— Wassily Kandinsky

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

— Edgar Degas

Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to…

— Henry Miller

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art…

— Jamie Wyeth

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

— Charles Baudelaire

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for…

— Annie Leibovitz

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

— Robert Breault

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent