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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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.
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.