Ben Shahn Quotes

The only journey is the one within.

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

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

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

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.