Quotes About Self

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

As thou thinkest, so art thou.

What thou art, that thou art.

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.