Quotes About Introspection

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about one thing and months later you're playing it and thinking, hang on, this is completely informing where I am now.

My influences happen at more of a subconscious level, I don't dig too deep into that or analyze it myself.

Whatever we take from a film - personal, public, private, subconscious - a list can only contain moments that are often a key to the recognition of something more complex.

Why did I date the same kind of man? You look for the same kind of man, and you attract the same kind of man... A lot of it comes from you being a child, your household, and what you see that you've put in your subconscious.

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.