Quotes About Introspection

it would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns:

I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.