Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

To create something you must be something.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

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

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept.

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

My work is intensely personal.

I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

You develop a voice and a process that's unique to yourself.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

I can't be the same as another player. I am just my way and I will try to improve on that at Chelsea.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

I just want to be the best I can and create my own style of game.