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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.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

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.