“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
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
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
“The best I could manage was an off-center lump.” “A self-portrait, then?” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Making a decision based on fear is like painting a self-portrait of someone else.” — Charles F. Glassman 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
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features… — Demetri Martin 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 sit at an empty table after the lunch rush and turn to the last assignment in my journal. This one’s the… — Kristin Rae 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
“Self-Portrait at Twenty" I stood inside myself like a dead tree or a tower. I pulled the rope of braided hair and… — Gregory Orr 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
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
“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
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. — Abner Leslie Copy Share Image
“Every craft is a self portrait of the maestro who does it. Autograph your work with greatness.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo… — Agnes Varda 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 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
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
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
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
I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a… — Francesco Clemente 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