A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
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.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
I don't want to be a painter, I want to be painting.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view.
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.
The eyes are the window of the soul.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
There is nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
The painter tries to find the spirit of an individual and put it on canvas.
A portrait is a mirror with a memory.