What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make it weird….

I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do ….

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives..

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold..

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting..

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belon….

You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close..

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego..

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himse….

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face….

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture..

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such ….

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth..

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog..

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible..

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop ….

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer..

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Ch….

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the s….

For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've al….