Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 3
Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit. Votes: 3
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. Votes: 2
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. Votes: 2
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. Votes: 2
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. Votes: 2
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. Votes: 2
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. Votes: 2
The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting... Votes: 2
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth. Votes: 2
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done. Votes: 2
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them. Votes: 2
Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image? Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color. Votes: 2
It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling about catching a cold and something incoherent about Wellington , so I finally decided to work from photos. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness. Votes: 2
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait. Votes: 1
All art is self-portraiture. Votes: 0
The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. Votes: 0
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. Votes: 0
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage. Votes: 0
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude. Votes: 0
What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... . Votes: 0
I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject. Votes: 0
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization. Votes: 0
I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of your subject. Votes: 0
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us. Votes: 0
We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game. Votes: 0
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing. Votes: 0
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty. Votes: 0
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.
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.
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.
Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and 19th-century British portraiture that you can imagine in Southern California. One doesn't think about Southern California as being the capital of great art.