We were created to look at one another, weren't we?
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.