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  • 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.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.

  • The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.

    Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
  • 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)

    Self   People   Soul  
  • Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

    Writing   Self   Trying  
    Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics
  • Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

    Art   Pain   Book  
    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

    Soccer   Art   Writing  
    Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”
  • I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

    Beach   Self   Portraits  
  • 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.

  • Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

  • 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 much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.

  • Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

    Song   Self   Years  
    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
  • I've had a reoccurring dream about hanging out with Britney Spears, so maybe it would be fun to chill with her for a bit? Like, see what makes her tick. I had this dream once about Britney, that we were going to get married or something, and so I had to meet her parents but we were stuck on a beach in these sand dunes - and at this point between the dreams and self-portrait, you know way too much about me.

    Dream   Beach   Fun  
  • 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.

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

    Hands   Soul   Portraits  
    Mark Twain (1933). “Mark Twain's works”
  • 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.

    "What I See in the Mirror: Robert Winston". www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
  • 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.

    Self   Hands   Giving  
    "Diary". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 26, 2003.
  • Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

    Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler
  • All photographs are self-portraits.

  • 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.

    Art   Self   Experience  
  • 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.

    Self   Portraits   Way  
  • Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.

    Character   Player   Self  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

    Love   Art   Happy Friday  
    Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo (1992). “Frida Kahlo”, Rizzoli International Publications
  • 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.

    Real   Believe   Self  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

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

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

    Men   Self   Ego  
  • I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

    Heart   Thinking   Simple  
    "Sherlock (TV Series) - A Scandal in Belgravia". www.imdb.com. 2012.
  • 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.

    Eye   Light   Self  
  • 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.

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