Every Time I Paint A Portrait I

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.

I Don't Dig Beneath The Surface For Things That Don't Appear Before My Own Eyes.

You Can't Do Sketches Enough. Sketch Everything And Keep Your Curiosity Fresh.

The Habit Of Breaking Up One's Colour To Make It Brilliant Dates From Further Back Than Impressionism - Couture Advocates It In A Little Book Called 'causeries D'atelier' Written About 1860 - It Is Part Of The Technique Of Impressionism But Used For Quite A Different Reason.

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