“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
Frida Kahlo
“[Miller, whose profile eerily matches early portraits of Byron, skillfully blends his restless passion and moments of sour self-awareness. Byron is caustic about his future wife from the first, noting that he would] like her more if she were less perfect. ... Could she not find one in Jane Austen?”
Vanessa Redgrave
“We wrote our names in Egyptian and did scrolls. We made self-portraits as queens or pharaohs.”
Michael Lane
“You could call it a collection of self-portraits. Each photographer has really photographed himself.”
Isabelle Huppert
“Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.”
Cleo Moore
“They're self-portraits of the way that I feel about myself physically as opposed to the way society makes me feel about myself.”
Sarah Reeves
“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
