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On Portraiture
A successful portrait is a drawing, painting or sculpture given life. 2015
Back to the future... If contemporary painted portraits are to regain their classic status, the rendering of them must go beyond their consistently static poses, their obsessive flatness, their look and feel of badly copied snapshots. Portraits must be given back their capacity to "interpret us" and to reach out beyond the navel of their creator - but mostly, they reach out and connect and speak with the viewer. - 2014
It is a wonderful compliment to be told the likeness of a portrait subject "really looks like them. But there is not greater compliment than being told: "That's him!" or "That's her!". - 2013
If I haven't captured the personality of a subject, getting a likeness is meaningless. - 2000
Seeing likeness in a portrait speaks to recognize the craftsman in the visual artist. Finding soul is to discover the artist in the craftsman. - 1996
A painter of people prefers to pass unnoticed; to be left alone to notice. - 1986
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