Quotes About Introspection

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.