A Portrait Is A Painting With Something

If You Begin With The Middle-tone And Work Up From It Toward The Darks So That You Deal Last With Your Highest Lights And Darkest Darks, You Avoid False Accents.

Every Time I Paint A Portrait I Lose A Friend.

A Portrait Is A Painting With Something Wrong With The Mouth.

Cultivate An Ever Continuous Power Of Observation. Wherever You Are, Be Always Ready To Make Slight Notes Of Postures, Groups And Incidents. Store Up In The Mind... A Continuous Stream Of Observations From Which To Make Selections Later. Above All Things Get Abroad, See The Sunlight And Everything That Is To Be Seen.

Cultivate An Ever-continuous Power Of Observation. Wherever You Are, Be Always Ready To Make Slight Notes Of Postures, Groups And Incidents.