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
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. — Francis Bacon 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
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
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
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait… — Vince Lombardi 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
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
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
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 have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in… — Gustav Klimt 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
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light… — Annie Leibovitz 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
I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
