I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no self-portrait of me.
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
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.
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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