Quotes About Introspection

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Just as it takes work to be in a relationship, so it takes work to not be in a relationship.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.