Self Portrait Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
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 disappear. — Cindy Sherman
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 myself… — Cindy Sherman
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 and beautiful self-portrait… — Terrence Howard
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. — Cleo Moore
I think self-portraits are very difficult. Iâ€™ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be… — Annie Leibovitz
All photographs are self-portraits. — Minor White
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really… — Philippe Halsman
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above… — Gustav Klimt
Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,… — N.D. Wilson
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change… — Nan Goldin
Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits. — Richard Zimler
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn… — Kai Greene
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 is very much… — Joyce Tenneson
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 presence.… — Joyce Tenneson
Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want… — Lori Earley
There is no self-portrait of me. — Gustav Klimt
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul… — Mark Twain
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
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 happens… — Jacques Derrida

Who Wrote These Self Portrait Quotes

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