portrait quotes

Sometimes, in order to imitate the original, it is necessary toput something that isnot inthe original into a portrait in marble.

- Gianlorenzo Bernini
Attributed remark made to Paul Fre  art, in Diary of Cavalier Bernini's Journey in France (1665).

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

- Salvador Dal| 
Quoted in Esar A  Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951).

   Thereare only twostyles of portrait painting, theserious and the smirk.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^9  Miss LaCreevy. Nicholas Nickleby, ch.10.

[A Gustave Courbet] portrait of a trout†has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

- Robert Studley Forrest Hughes
  In Time,15 Sep.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
Quoted in Mrs Piozzi  Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786).

   When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

- Medardo Rosso
Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

-John Singer Sargent
Attributed.

Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Dog.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  Title of book.