Quotes About Introspection

Art is the escape from personality.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

There is no art without contemplation.

Now my tapestry's unraveling.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.