Bjork Quotes

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person.

I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in.

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

One of the beautiful things about music is it gives you an opportunity to learn how to tell the truth, and it's a life-long learning process.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

The true artform is being a human being.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.