The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.