“It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.” PeopleFeelsUseGivenCasesSubjectsTalentDrawsArroganceHumblingPortraitureGod Given Talents Author:LeRoy Neiman
“The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.” TryingHumansPersonsMightEyeFoundLostKnownSubjectsHuman NatureNeededKissingSpeechMouthsAreasComplexesEdgesNosesFlatsVehicleCurvesFoldsChinsNuancePortraitureLost And Found Author:Robert Genn
“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
“Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.” SubjectsPaintPortraitsPortraiture Author:Jamie Wyeth
“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.” CharacterWantedMy OwnStudySubjectsPaintPortraitsPortraiture Author:William Dobell
“The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.” ArtRealCharacterArtistAliveSubjectsStressStriveCaricaturesPortraitureReal Artists Author:William Dobell
“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 wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.” DifferentWantedArtistSubjectsDistancePhotographTraditionalFormalRevealingPortraiture Book:Collaborative works with children 1969-1999 Source: Collaborative works with children 1969-1999
“A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.” FormImpossibleSubjectsCreatingInteractionViewersConfrontationPortraiture Author:Martin Schoeller