Quotes on Self Portrait

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.