“No one determines your truth but you. You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait. — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait! — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait. — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
“Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person’s choice of color, furnishing, pictures.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject.… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
He Self Portraits tend to be a reflection of our Heavenly Father and if you look deep into the eyes of these… — Christy Povolish Copy Share Image
“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
“I set the self-portrait timer on the camera to ten seconds, handed it to the zombie, and sent him into the grid… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I've had a reoccurring dream about hanging out with Britney Spears, so maybe it would be fun to chill with her for… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest,… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
I love how the most insecure people on Facebook are the ones who post a new self portrait every 6 hours. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every job is a self portrait of a person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remind your students today that every piece of work completed is a self-portrait of the one who did it. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
My self portrait shows a man that the wealth tortured, self-absorbed with his own self-forfeit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
You will regret that cell-phone self-portrait in the bathroom mirror one day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
“The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?" Self-Portrait… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Everything in a wide sense is a kind of a self-portrait. It's just the way you see things and you're curious about… — Jurgen Teller Copy Share Image
The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
