A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.