Quotes About Authenticity

In real life I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Love isn't perfect. It's hard work and sometimes it's more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

Our true worth doesn't come from the work we do, it comes from who we are as human beings.