Ifs Quote by William Dobell

Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with…

— Stuart Pearson Wright

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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 you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

— Imogen Cunningham

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

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

— Kenneth Clark

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

— William Dobell

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

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to…

— Jacob Epstein

“You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till people come…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem…

— Oscar Wilde