Quotes About Transformation

Pick up your broken pieces and form a new shape of your life.

We can set for ourselves a bright future only if we switch off our past.

We normally gain most of what we wish for after we lose our fears.

What will turn the world upside down, we currently still depend on it as humans.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.

Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Time ... antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.

It has taken me a very long time, a very long time to give myself permission to fly and breathe fire.

Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

It's odd the way life works, the way it mutates and wanders, the way one thing becomes another.

I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.

Todas las sustancias individuales fluyen y están en movimiento, perdiendo unas partes de sí mismas y recibiendo otras que vienen a ellas de cualquier sitio.

What was unwritten then is inscribed into what I call myself.

Within weeks of my arrival in New York, I was someone else, not because there had been a revolution in my psychological makeup or any trauma. It was simply this: people saw me in a light in which I had never been seen before.

Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.

More than anything, the pictures had altered my vision of George. The graceful young man with long dark hair and beautiful manners had spawned a double, and it was this second man, the one I didn't know, who fascinated me.

A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no doubt people who would find it odd that a fiction, when fully imagined, can create something parallel to the disruptions in madness, but what Freud called "sublimation" is the transformation of inner dramas, fears, and wounds into something else: a work of art outside the body of the artist.

It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or pleasure, which means that they are never what they were.

the forgotten back-and-forth of early life becomes who we are.

I love clothes and have often pined for them - the beautiful dress or coat in the window. My desire is for the transformation I imagine will take place, a kind of enchantment of my own body.

In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later.