Painting Quote by Winna Efendi

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

— Josephine de Beauharnais

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul…

— Annie Leibovitz

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much…

— Richard Avedon

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.”

— Cicero

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

— Mary Ellen Mark

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

— John Singer Sargent

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

— William Dobell

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the…

— Bill Henson

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…

— Gerhard Richter

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Edward Steichen

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

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

— Ira Glass

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