When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.