The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.
Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. I was coming out of a melancholic phase. This was taken when I was traveling extensively, on the road from hotel to hotel. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.
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 portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
There is no self-portrait of me.
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.
None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.
It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman - for God is Love.Why should we start thinking of a god up in the clouds with wings, if He dwells within us in the spirit of Love?!
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.
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