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“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”

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Author:Charles Dickens

“In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.”

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Author:Will Cotton

“I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.”

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Author:Duane Michals

“I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.”

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Author:John Singer Sargent

“You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.”

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Author:Otto Dix

“Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.”

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Author:Jemima Kirke

“There is no self-portrait of me.”

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Book:Gustav Klimt Artworks

Source: Gustav Klimt Artworks