Essence Quote by Lori Earley

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

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

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

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 painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its…

— Gunter Brus

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

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

— Eric Kandel

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

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

— Nir Hod

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints…

— Jackson Pollock