self-discovery Quotes

Where id was, there ego shall be.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

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

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn't reneging on it; I just didn't want to do it.

Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.