Eileen Myles Quotes

One creates oneself.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

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.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

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.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there - as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.