What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image o….

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front..

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface….

And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen. It's been used….

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction….

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it..

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no….

My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head..

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language..

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose a….

What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in..

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg..

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels..

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic..

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

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character..