43 Quotations with Portrait.
- 21. Thomas B. Macaulay: The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

- 22. Benjamin Haydon: The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is ...

- 23. Georg C. Lichtenberg: The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which th ...

- 24. Charles Dickens: There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

- 25. Pamela Hansford Johnson: We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter ...

- 26. Pablo Picasso: When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, throu ...

- 27. Jawaharlal Nehru: You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the ...

- 28. Berenice Abbott: The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrai ...

- 29. Peter Behrens: Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Ne ...

- 30. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your came ...

- 31. Nick Carter: I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things th ...

- 32. Chuck Close: I don't do commissioned portraits and I don't paint college presidents. I can't ...

- 33. Chuck Close: I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning dis ...

- 34. Chuck Close: The only thing stupider than making a painting was making a representational pai ...

- 35. Macneile Dixon: The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vib ...

- 36. Robert Hughes: A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get ...

- 37. Ben Kingsley: I use my intuition, my imagination, my voice and my body. That is really what ac ...

- 38. Helmut Newton: My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

- 39. Iggy Pop: I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist wh ...

- 40. Norman Rockwell: I got a phone call from a Twentieth Century-Fox producer... asking me to go to H ...

Portrait Quotes by Power Quotations
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