Art Quote by Scott Kahn

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

— Eric Maisel

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

The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will…

— Gerald Moor

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

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-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because they can't…

— Grayson Perry

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch

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

— Eric Kandel

Never let your image of yourself, be painted by someone else.

— Cyn Shaw

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

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell