Quotes About Introspection

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

As thou thinkest, so art thou.

What thou art, that thou art.

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

Art never comes from happiness

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.