Quotes About Self

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

Self-creation is the highest art.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

You are the artist and the art.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.