List Of Portraiture Quotes

If Faces Were Not Alike, We Could Not Distinguish Men From Beasts; If They Were Not Different, We Could Not Tell One Man From Another.

When One Starts From A Portrait And Seeks By Successive Eliminations To Find Pure Form... One Inevitably Ends Up With An Egg.

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.

A Portrait Is A Painting With Something Wrong With The Mouth.

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.

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.

It's Really Absurd To Make... A Human Image, With Paint, Today, When You Think About It... But Then All Of A Sudden, It Was Even More Absurd Not To Do It.

There Is No Self-portrait Of Me.

A Competent Portraitist Knows How To Imply The Profile In The Full Face.

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.

Ah! Portraiture, Portraiture With The Thought, The Soul Of The Model In It, That Is What I Think Must Come.

One Is Never Satisfied With The Portrait Of A Person That One Knows.