Quotes About Authenticity

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

In 'life,' I don't want to be reduced to my work. In 'work,' I don't want to be reduced to my life.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

The only way we'll ever know what it's like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That's where home is.

Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.

That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.

The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.