Cynthia Rowley Quotes

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

We're all works of art in progress.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.