Virginia Woolf Quotes

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

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.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.