An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.
There is no self-portrait of me.
I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary.
I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.
Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.