The Muse Portrait Database
We invite you to read a sample of portraits from our various projects. If you have any comments about the portraits or would like to know how to write your own self-portrait, please contact us by email. Search our portraits to discover what other people around the world think and feel about: empathy, perfection, war, loneliness, Africa, hair, Einstein, work, poetry, family, sleep, memory, curiosity, dancing...
New Arrivals from the United Arab Emirates
- A Guide to the Self Portrait: Hesam
- A Self Portrait: AI
- Why My Life Is Like Spagetti: S.M.
- A Self Portrait: S.S.
- Never break your parents' car's gear box. No matter how right you are: Quelqu'un
- Gender and Identity in Conflict: Notes on growing up, settling down, planting roots, and calling it "home": Lina
| Anne Chatterton | How a practitioner of Zen, and sometime artist, lives life as a part of the world. |
| Anonymous | Why a 'little emperor' is no longer afraid of change |
| Anonymous | Searching for another life |
| Anonymous | We are so used to getting what we want that any sense of appreciation is lost |
| Anonymous | Why I am a liar and would like to be a poet who writes about rage and violence |
| Anonymous | The wisdom and the waste brought on by heroin addiction |
| Anonymous | How a music-lover, heavily in debt, faces up to homelessness and uncertainty |
| Anonymous | How to find inspiration in every generation |
| Anthony Smith | How the President of an Oxford college views his life at the head of public institutions |
| Athene Reiss | Why a school governor wants to empower children |