authenticity Quotes

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.

I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.

It would be nice if we could all agree to this proposition: popularity is not the same as achievement.

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to find. Jane Austen was made of strong stuff. She was too satiric for D. H. Lawrence's taste and too unforgiving for Kingsley Amis's, but you would still not call her hellish.