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!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.
I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.