Drawing Quote by Jacques Derrida

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

— Burton Silverman

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

— Eric Kandel

There is no self-portrait of me.

— Gustav Klimt

I never could have predicted that I would have done something that could be called portraiture.

— Laurie Simmons

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

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'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

All art is self-portraiture.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— Francis Bacon

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

— Robert Rauschenberg