Portraits Quotes
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I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
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Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen it Charles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s split into quadrants and there’s four heads, basically—portraits of people. We’ve actually often thought and freaked out, what if something happened to Charles Burns? Because he’s so identified with the cover of our magazine, I don’t know what we would do if anything happened to Charles Burns.
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The portraits are VERY difficult to make. The use of a skeleton creates an interesting balance between life and death.
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I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.
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All photographs are self-portraits.
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Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].
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I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
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If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.
