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

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Self Portrait Quotes

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of...

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing...

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing...

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on...

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on...

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on...

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting...

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and...

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and...

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....