Alexander Smith Quotes

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

For me, Instagram had become a place where I could image myself the way I found myself.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

For after all we make our faces as we go along.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

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

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

There is no self-portrait of me.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

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.