You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
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.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.