Beloved Quote by Milan Kundera

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

— Eric Kandel

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

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…

— Joyce Tenneson

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he…

— Samuel Butler

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

— Burton Silverman

An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own…

— Anonymous

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

— Pierre Huyghe

Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an…

— Gene Lees

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

— Kehinde Wiley

“…there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait.”

— M. John Harrison

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

— Edvard Munch