Quotes About Introspection

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Maybe I am a little cocky. Maybe it's something I need to work on.

My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?