“A portrait is a picture with something wrong with the mouth”
“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
“The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.”
“Seeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this.”
“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How they want to see you. A camera catches whichever you happens to be there when it clicks.”
“And on the second OOOOOOOO, you picture just a naked glowing green skull that hangs there vibrating gape-mouthed in a prison cell. Or whatever it is you picture.”