“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
“The portraits of Dora Maar are among the most popular and most important works that he did. For the better part of a decade she was his muse, his model, his intellectual companion, his intellectual sparring partner.”
Charles Moffett
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“Your library is your portrait.”
Holbrook Jackson
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
Frida Kahlo
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
Salvador Dalí
“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.”
Rita Rudner
