To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
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.
I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
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.