I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.