Quotes About Authenticity

Your outside doesn't determine your inside; it is your inside that controls the outside.

Each time we press the pen to the paper to create a letter formation, connect letters, or shape a margin, we are declaring, "This is who I am.

just let Mitch be Mitch

No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****." "I feel like s****

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

Your conduct speaks so loudly I can't hear a word you are saying.")

Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

What do you do when you find yourself out in a lie—even a white one? Well, one thing for sure, you don't put on black, you don't mourn and beat out a staccato mea culpa on your breast. You go! Get the hell out! Take a chance! Forget you're an American, living in the suburbs of success, hoping to move into the big city...You go!

The follower of fashion can be as honest as the leader of the rebellion against it.

I wish they would take me as I am.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

E, com um pouco mais de sinceridade, tornaríamos a vida mais fácil para todos.

Eu tinha começado a assinar minhas telas, mas logo parei com isto, pareceu-me demasiada besteira.

Enfim, seja como for, eu quero ir adiante a qualquer custo, quero ser eu mesmo.

But always those same conventional eyes, noses, mouths - waxlike and smooth and cold. It cannot but always remain lifeless. And the painted portraits have a life of their own, coming straight from the painter's soul, which the machine cannot reach. The more one looks at photographs, the more one feels this, I think.

It does one good to read things like that, more than most of the stuff the decadents write, with their passion for saying the most obvious things in the most wildly contorted phrases.

How does one become mediocre? By complying with and conforming to one thing today and another tomorrow, as the world dictates, by never contradicting the world and by heeding public opinion"_Page.250

And this will remain my policy, and it is quite possible that I shall give up my studio before long and go live in a peasant's cottage, so as not to hear or see educated people - as they call themselves - any longer.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

You must never steal another man's words. Ever.

Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion.

If you want to be an authentic writer, learn to tell the truth, to wrestle with it, to reflect on it, and then to write about it with great care. And great humility.