Orson Scott Card Quotes

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

The personality is a work of art.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

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

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

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

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.

A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

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.

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.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.