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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 I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

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.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

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.