Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject..
You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I pai….
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph..
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..
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology..
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain..
Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine t….
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good….
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound ….
In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot..
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a ….
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait..
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..
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative..
A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces..
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg..
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg..
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will….
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..
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money..
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….