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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter [on aestheticism]
View quotes by Oscar Wilde

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know you have it.
View quotes by Ralph Ellison

And that's a self-portrait of himself, by himself.
View quotes by Richard Madeley

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
View quotes by E F Schumacher

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
View quotes by John Singer Sargent

'A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.'
View quotes by John Singer Sargent

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
View quotes by Samuel Butler

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
View quotes by Robert Hughes

I hope they don't let Brett Lee anywhere near it [a portrait of himself] with a black pen because I might end up with a moustache like Merv Hughes's
View quotes by Shane Warne

Who can take
Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat
View quotes by Edward Young

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait
View quotes by James McNeil Whistler

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were.
View quotes by Philippe Halsman

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
View quotes by Tyra Banks

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
View quotes by Learned Hand

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
View quotes by Jay Leno

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
View quotes by Albert Pike

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran



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