Quotes by Portraiture A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face. Aldous Huxley portraiture profile faces Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. Alice Neel portraiture artist soul What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance. Andrew Neel portraiture atmosphere remember 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. August Wilhelm von Schlegel portraiture portraits art My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand. Beat Streuli portraiture cities trying Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality. Burton Silverman portraiture portraits personality Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. Charles Baudelaire portraiture portraits character With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. Clement Greenberg portraiture portraits artist Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all. David Hockney portraiture people interesting 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. E. M. Forster portraiture roger able There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth. Edouard Manet portraiture differences eye I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. Francesco Clemente portraiture portraits giving If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma. Francis Bacon portraiture people looks I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. Francis Bacon portraiture portraits self There is no self-portrait of me. Gustav Klimt portraiture portraits self The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. Imogen Cunningham portraiture fascinating photography Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth. Ingmar Bergman portraiture self lying 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. Jamie Wyeth portraiture portraits faces Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject. Jamie Wyeth portraiture portraits paint And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen. It's been used in many films, but not in its entirety and we shot the inside and the outside and used every nook and cranny. The inside is very gaudy. It's a little naughty inside. There's a lot of portraiture. Jerusha Hess portraiture naughty character 123»