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Quotes About Self-discovery

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.
~ Unknown
Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.
~ Unknown
The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.
~ Unknown
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
~ Sam Taylor-Wood
We're all works of art in progress.
~ Carmen Dell'Orefice
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.
~ Maya Angelou
Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.
~ Meredith Brooks
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
~ Orson Scott Card
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
~ Walt Disney
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
~ Terence McKenna
Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.
~ Greg Cipes
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
~ David Bowie
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
~ Auguste Rodin
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
~ Al Stewart
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.
~ Saint Augustine
She has given me a way out.
~ Alison Bechdel
I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
~ Jackie DeShannon
When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.
~ Bruno Tonioli
Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.
~ Frederick Lenz
I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.
~ Jeff Smith
I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.
~ Joe Hill
Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
~ Jordi Molla
I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.
~ Peter Gabriel