Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
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