Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given…

“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or…

— Irving Stone

“Making a decision based on fear is like painting a self-portrait of someone else.”

— Charles F. Glassman

I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to…

— William Klein

Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to…

— Annie Leibovitz

I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest, they're going…

— Andrew W.K

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better…

— August Strindberg

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

— Rineke Dijkstra

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I…

— Nan Goldin

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push…

— Cindy Sherman

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really…

— Young-Ha Kim

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of…

— Robert Winston

My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting…

— Joyce Tenneson