Top 1200 Self Portrait Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s the exact opposite—you’re the self to you and I’m the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally.” “I still don’t get it, but it sure feels good.” “That’s the whole idea,” the girl said.

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.