Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
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.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
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