“Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.” AblePaintingLipsLike MePostsConfinedChinsRogerPortraitureImpressionism Author:E. M. Forster
“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
“In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.” ArtSelfSubjectsPaintingExperiencePortraitsRevealingFamous ArtistPortraitureSelf PortraitSelf Portrait Photography Author:Richard Schmid
“I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.” MomentsForceBornOur LivesPaintingCoupleProjectsCuriosityPortraiture Author:Oliver Jeffers
“When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.” PeopleWritingWellsActingPaintingDrawingPortraiturePainting And Drawing Author:Antony Sher
“Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.” PeopleDonePaintingFoolConsequencePortraiture Author:R. B. Kitaj
“The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.” PersonsEmotionPaintingEssentialsEssencePainterCharacteristicsPortraiture Author:Titian
“I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.” HumansFacesPaintingPainterOddPortraitsPortraitureHuman Faces Author:Jamie Wyeth
“After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.” NeedsYearsFeltSubjectsPaintingOilLandscapeWildlifePortraiture Author:Ron Parker
“I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.” LittlesMadeSaidEyeEmotionWifePaintingUnderstoodOvercomingStudiosMy WifePortraitsAffirmativePortraiture Author:Jules Breton
“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.” TryingHumansTwoIdeasCoursesHuman BeingsImpossiblePaintingPlanetsTasksComplexesPaintSurfaceAbsurdOrganismsPortraitsPortraiture Author:David Cobley
“What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.” IfsArtPaintingPoetFineBasesCelebrateConceptionDeniedPortraitsHistoricFine ArtsProvincesTheoristsTouchstonesPortraiture Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel