“I started painting people I admire, like [Jack] Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl [Vanessa Paradis], my kids [Lily-Rose and Jack]. I painted Hunter [S. Thompson] a couple of times Keith Richards. What I love to do is paint people’s faces, you know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what’s going on behind their eye”.

Johnny Depp

Vanessa Paradis Julian Schnabel and Keith Richards painted by Johnny Depp, (featured on madame figaro magazine)