Portraiture Quotes
Collection of top 31 famous quotes about Portraiture
Portraiture Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Portraiture quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.
— Jimmy Durante
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
— Paul Cezanne
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
— Charles Baudelaire
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary.
— Paul Emsley
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
— Jamie Wyeth
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
— Antony Sher
If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
— Francis Bacon
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.
— Jonathan Franzen
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls ... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
— Alice Neel
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
— Annie Leibovitz
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
— Burton Silverman
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
— Imogen Cunningham
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.
— James Whistler
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.
— Joaquin Sorolla
If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.
— Nathan Oliveira
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
— Oriana Fallaci
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.
— Andrew Neel
Portraiture has its risks, and I suppose a dissident Free Presbyterian fatwa is one of them.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
— Francis Bacon
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.
— Clement Greenberg
