Quotes About Introspection

My trade and art is to live.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.