Quotes About Self

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Change art to include yourself.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

Don't try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

You can't control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.