Quotes About Introspection

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

If you keep hearing the same thing over and over again from your fan base, you should pay attention to that. But that's just another bunch of loud voices in your ear. I would imagine it makes it very hard to stay in touch with your own gut. You try to think of it as just another episode, but that never works. It just isn't.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.

One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

For a long time, life was fighting and there was nothing outside of that. At one point, it started to become very empty just because there was a void somewhere in my heart.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.