Self Portrait Quotes - Page 2

• I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe what they see is real, even with the [filters]. And God bless them! But to me, it's not a self-portrait, it's a reality project.

  Alex Katz

  Real, Believe, Self

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Portraits, Doe

  Quoted in Esar A Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951).

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• 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 presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Struggle, Reality

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• Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.

  N.D. Wilson

  Epic, Mountain Ranges, Self

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All photographs are self-portraits.

  Minor White

  Self, Portraits, Photographer

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• I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

  Mark Twain

  Hands, Soul, Portraits

  Mark Twain (1933). “Mark Twain's works”

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• Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.

  Josh McDowell

  Eye, Light, Self

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• I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

  Cindy Sherman

  Self, Portraits, Looks

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• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Jobs, Self, Excellence

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• When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

  Rolf Harris

  Self, Portraits, Draws

  "What I see in the mirror: Rolf Harris" by Rolf Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.

  Demetri Martin

  Artist, Self, Two

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• The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

  Agnes Varda

  Mirrors, Self, Portraits

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.

  Richard Zimler

  Blessed, Self, Portraits

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• An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

  Jacques Derrida

  Self, Drawing, Portraits

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• Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Wrinkles, Hair

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Everything in a wide sense is a kind of a self-portrait. It's just the way you see things and you're curious about certain things and just excited about them.

  Jurgen Teller

  Self, Portraits, Way

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• I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.

  William Klein

  Photography, Cutting, Self

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• Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Thinking, Self

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• The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.

  Lucas Samaras

  Years, Self, Eras

  "Lucas Samaras: Father Of The Selfies". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2014.

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• 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, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night... Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures.

  Gustav Klimt

  Morning, Night, Self

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• I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Dark, Thinking, Light

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• The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

  Terrence Howard

  Beautiful, Artist, Self

  "Terrence Dashon Howard: A rising star". Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. August 05, 2005.

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  Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

  Kai Greene

  Art, Bodybuilding, Self

  FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Jul 26, 2011

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• 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 of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Self, Experience

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• 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 was wondering if it could. And how.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Self, Done, Literature

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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