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
| Melanie | How does it matter whether you gain the world or not? |
| Mike Parker | Why an intuitive bioethicist makes rather than finds, and goes skiing |
| Neville Hodgkinson | How a leading science journalist finds solace and new strength in retreat |
| Pamela Sue Anderson | How a feminist wants to change philosophy and theology |
| Patricia Ward | …My mother was one of thirteen brothers and sisters and yet, for forty-seven years, none of them knew of my existence… I’d been adopted and was looking for my natural mother… By the time I found out who she was, through a will, she had died. I discovered that she’d been living not twenty minutes from me… |
| Paul Brennan | How to be successful and lazy at the same time |
| Paul Dent | This is probably the most I've talked in my life |
| Paulette Burke | …I don’t like the word career ‘cos I think it sounds a bit cold. I dream of being in a place where I haven’t got the pressures of working for someone else, my life being manufactured for me. I want to be a writer, I want to write novels… poetry… but working for myself… freelance… |
| Peter de Boer | How taking responsibility for a child enabled a sufferer from cancer to think about the future |
| Peter Sipthorp | Bridges of trust require patience and courage |