A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.