10 Captions for Portraits
- I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you. -Frida Kahlo
- My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. -Helmut Newton
- I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. -Frida Kahlo
- My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. -Richard Avedon
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. -Oscar Wilde
- Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. -Matt Hardy
- When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. -Pablo Picasso
- I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas. -Robert Ryan
- They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. -Frida Kahlo
- There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. -Charles Dickens
- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. -Samuel Johnson
5 Instagram Captions for Self Portraits
- I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. -Frida Kahlo
- Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait! -Scott Kahn
- There is no self-portrait of me. -Gustav Klimt
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. -Oscar Wilde
- Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. -John Singer Sargent
