“An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.” ShouldI CanSelfHappensDrawingPortraitsPortraitureSelf PortraitSelf Portrait Photography Author:Jacques Derrida
“The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.” IfsShouldFacesNaturalGonePaintPainterLandscapeFeaturesInsultLatterOccupationPortraitsPortraiturePresumptuous Author:Walter J. Phillips
“I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.” ShouldLightFiguresTearsSceneSolitudePaintShadeCanvasPortraits Author:Emily Dickinson