One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that…

“Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person’s choice of color, furnishing, pictures.”

— Louise Penny

In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience…

— Richard Schmid

I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take…

— Mark Twain

There is no self-portrait of me.

— Gustav Klimt

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

— Burton Silverman

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that…

— Paul Strand

An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that…

— Jacques Derrida

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

— Francis Bacon

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's…

— Igor Babailov

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

— Clement Greenberg

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality.…

— Alton Tobey

“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably,…

— Hope Mirrlees

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

— Charles Baudelaire