Architecture Quote by Samuel Butler

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary

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

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

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

— Edvard Munch

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject,rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait.

— Ceejay

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

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography…

— Aubrey Beardsley