Quotes About Introspection

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

All art is self-portraiture.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

I paint my own reality.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

All art is autobiographical.

True victory is victory over oneself.

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.

Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

I am the soul in limbo.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.