Quotes About Authenticity

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

The life I live is my art work.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.