Extremes Quote by Cindy Sherman

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is…

— Kehinde Wiley

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

— Lotte Jacobi

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'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…

— Joyce Tenneson

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

— Francis Bacon

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

— Cleo Moore

All photographs are self-portraits.

— Minor White

People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my…

— 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

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

— Burton Silverman

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,…

— Gustav Klimt