Abstraction Quote by Joyce Tenneson

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 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

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

— Eric Kandel

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…

— Lori Earley

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

— Burton Silverman

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

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

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

— Pierre Huyghe

All art is self-portraiture.

— Kehinde Wiley