“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.” MenWellsFacesArtistHe ManPaintingOne DayModelsPaintFeaturesCanvasPortraitsPortraiture Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.” ShouldWholeRealityChoicesGivenPaintingFeaturesCaptureRealisticRealismProminence Author:Alain de Botton
“In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.” IndividualInterestImaginationNaturalPaintingAppealsFeaturesCollectivesSpheresInvestigationVividTruthfulness Author:David Hume
“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.” LightFormMotherToo MuchPaintingDecidedEssenceValuablePassingPassingsBoatLandscapeFeaturesAnnoyingExecutionLocksCan NotRoyalAcademyBrightnessLightnessScholastics Author:John Constable
“In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.” MayGraceAirPaintingAddFeaturesPortraitsObserving Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds