Work as Self-Portrait

^z 9th July 2023 at 7:43pm

Samuel Butler, in The Way of All Flesh (1903), Chapter 14:

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

(cf. Conversations in Paint (2000-08-18), On My Journal (2005-01-29), ...) - ^z - 2013-03-04