Self-Portraits Quotes

Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.

I always take photos from my left side because my jaw line is stronger.

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

I've never taken a selfie and I don't plan to start now.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

Selfies are one of those things I generally take but never post. It's more to remember the moment or what I'm doing.

People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back.

I was always in front of the camera. My mom was really passionate about photography - I have pictures of my whole life. I've always just been in front of my mom's camera, and it's always comfortable to me.

I like taking pictures of other people more than I like to take pictures of myself.

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

I love Frida Kahlo.

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

Basically, I feel like people have always taken photos of themselves. When I was in college, I had these Polaroid cameras my friends and I would have so much fun with. Today, we'd be taking those pictures on our phones. I think it's just part of culture today... Why not have fun with it?

Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the 'icon' of Frida Khalo.

I would literally sit at home and have my friends take pictures of me on my little Canon camera that my mom gave me for Christmas.