Eugene Delacroix Quotes

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

All good work requires self-revelation.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

My personality doesn't interest me.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

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

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.