I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.
I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.
I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!
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.