Self-Portraiture Quotes

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.

Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

All art is self-portraiture.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

People have drawn me, which is super cool. I'd love to print some out and put them on my wall.

Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band.'

Paintin they own pictures then they crop me in But I will remain where the top begins

I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures.

Whenever I Instagram or Vine something of myself, I like to go extreme and be crazy and silly.

I'm so pro-selfie because I think it's a tool that allows girls to create images of their own and of themselves.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got frustrated and bored with it. Then I thought, actually, how does it feel to be photographed? That's when I started to photograph myself. That was an incredibly important moment, and it opened up my work tremendously.

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

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

For me the most important thing to do in a selfie is to have an opinion and to say something with the picture. Don't just take a picture of yourself like, 'Here I am.' It's what are you thinking? Are you happy? Are you angry? Do you like it? Do you not like it? Think an emotion and apply it to your eyes.