The job of the portrait is to capture the soul and project it onto the canvas.
Painting a portrait is a huge attempt to comprehend and preserve the mystery.
Portraits are to daily faces as an evening west is to a fine day.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Life is an art, and we are all artists, constantly painting portraits of our lives.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
The portrait is one of the most curious subjects offered to the artist.
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.