Portraiture Quotes

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.

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

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.

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.

My work is never just fashion, landscape, or portraiture; it's always kind of an odd mixture of everything. I like muddling it together.

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.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

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.

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

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.

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.