Artist Quotes About Self Portraits
It is rather the painter who on the coloured canvas reveals himself.
Artist quotes about self portraits. Julian bell share this quote with a friend more quotes by julian bell. Martin luther king jr. Around the age of 18 frida was terribly injured in a bus accident and it was during her recovery that she started painting although this was not the first art form she practiced. How youre older than your years but still.
Oscar wilde the picture of dorian gray. Frida kahlo de rivera was a mexican painter who mostly painted self portraits. Quotes tagged as self portrait showing 1 15 of 15. It is not he who is revealed by the painter.
Work man music architecture. Here are some inspiring quotes from some of historys most creative figures. Gustav klimt 1914. The sitter is merely the accident the occasion.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist not of the sitter. Every mans work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself. Have no fear of perfection youll never reach it salvador dali. On the meaning of art.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. Frida kahlo july 6 1907 july 13 1954 was a mexican artist mostly known for her self portraits. How much you hate anything fake or phony. Self portraiture is something one should never get involved in since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
The way youre always searching. I paint self portraits because i am so often alone because i am the person i know best. Her work is inspired by mexican popular culture with a naive folk art style added to it. Something eerie lurks in its fingering of the edge between seer and seen.
Quotes tagged as portrait showing 1 30 of 52. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. How youre always looking into people or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Ranging from explorations about the meaning of art to presentations of their own motivational mantras these quotes about art prove the creative power and potential of words.