Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks. — Ignazio Silone
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. — Susan Sontag
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett
One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to… — Chogyam Trungpa
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That… — Chogyam Trungpa
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully. — Meher Baba
Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that… — Sathya Sai Baba
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. — Robert Motherwell
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction. — Paul Cezanne
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.… — Jonathan Raban
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to… — Eugene Delacroix
Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my… — Emily Carr
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. — Max Muller
It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing. — Paul Bowles
One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun. — Raoul Dufy
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. — William Empson
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work… — Philip Guston
What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some… — Anish Kapoor
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely… — Steven Pressfield
Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation. — Kimon Nicolaides
Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which… — Louise Bourgeois
To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity. — Eric Maisel
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and… — Jacob Epstein
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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