Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject..

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations..

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then be….

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but.….

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost..

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits..

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when ….

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology..

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline..

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, t….