Akira Kurosawa Quotes

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they believe. That's what it has to be. Otherwise it's just a product.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to express myself through my art and show up and be present - that's activism, advocacy, and artistry in itself.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.

All my songs are where I am.

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

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