Quotes About Introspection

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

What a piece of work is a man

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.