That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives..
You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object; that it's not a window i….
I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog..
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach..
When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits..
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall..
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me..
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits..
A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a stud….
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego..
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don….
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer..
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happe….
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold..
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009..
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait..
I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office..
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….
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious..
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman..
I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am conc….