self-discovery Quotes

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

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.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

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.

Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children.

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