Quotes About Authenticity

El criminal no hace la belleza; él mismo es la auténtica belleza.

L'existence précède l'essence

What is meant by the term existentialism? Most people who use the word would be rather embarrassed if they had to explain it, since, now that the word is all the rage, even the work of a musician or painter is being called existentialist. A gossip columnist in Clartés signs himself The Existentialist, so that by this time the word has been so stretched and has taken on so broad a meaning, that it no longer means anything at all.

I glance around the room. What a comedy! All these people sitting there, looking serious, eating. No, they aren't eating: they are recuperating in order to successfully finish their tasks. Each one of them has his little personal difficulty which keeps him from noticing that he exists; there isn't one of them who doesn't believe himself indispensable to something or someone.

Varl??? bir rezaletti ve daha sonra üstüne alaca?? sorumluluklar bu rezaleti doÄŸrulamaya yetecekti.

But you have to choose: live or tell.

L'homme est condamné à être libre (Manusia dikutuk untuk menjadi bebas)

They are as unfree as Roquentin, yet they hide the terrible imprisonment of their existences by unthinkingly getting up, going out to work, relaxing on Sundays, and so on. They wrongly imagine that they have chosen this form of life, when of course it has chosen them.

I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

It's important to find one that complements your body and not try to fit into something that doesn't work.

Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.