Antonin Artaud Quotes

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

My work is intensely personal.

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

All my characters are me, in one way or another.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe my style or even tell if I have one or not.

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.