Quotes About Introspection

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.

My body of work means nothing to me

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I can't eradicate my defects. I can work on them."

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.