Quotes About Authenticity

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

I've never been no superficial cat.

I'm just - like, I'm just very over the whole superficial life and world we live in.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

People are much more important than superficial environments.

Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.

I have tried the fancy, superficial life in my past, but I quickly learned that diamonds are not my best friend.

I truly believe that getting dressed in the morning is about deciding who you want to be, what you're saying in the world, and how you want people to see you. It's so much more than superficial.

If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.

If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

It's hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.

It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there.

I mean, I'm no superhero.

I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.