I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics..

For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves..

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every….

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..

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen..

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to ….

It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo..

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a….

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture..

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess….

A remarkably revealing portrait..

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait..

One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I d….

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait..

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary..

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror..

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall..

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait..

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay..

Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious..