Art Quote by Wendy Ewald

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

— Nigel Dennis

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 paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm…

— James Nares

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to…

— Peter Doig

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

— Victor Skrebneski

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as…

— John Van Hamersveld

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the…

— Mary Ellen Mark

“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality, and the…

— Isabel Allende