“There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.”
“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those other two guys to be artists. ”
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.”
“I often paint self-portraits for it is I that know myself best-Freida Kahlo.”
“Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...”