And love Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't…

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look…

— Rankin

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

— Lotte Jacobi

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

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

— Jamie Wyeth

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography…

— Marcel Duchamp

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike…

— Susan Sontag

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

— Francesco Clemente