Quotes About Introspection

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

The greatest art is philosophy.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?