Self

“When you understand without selfishness, prajna becomes karuna, compassion.”

“I am the canvas.”

““It shines a light on every aspect of your life.””

“I'm giving myself the permission to be José, to be focusing on myself.”

“L’homme profond, c’est le vrai moi.”

“I seldom paint portraits, and when I do I neither please myself nor my employers.”

“I was kind of getting claustrophobic in my own face.”

“I was my own Svengali!”

“To be an entrepreneur you have to be a certain kind of person – it doesn’t suit everyone.”

“The main impulse was shame, the desire to consider oneself a decent person.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write.”

“My name is Gauhar Jaan!”

“What people say about you is none of your business. What you say about you is entirely your business.”

“Мы никогда не будем умны чужим умом и славны чужою славою.”

“I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity.”

“Uno es más que su yo profundo, que su posición metafísica; hay otras cosas que cuentan.”

“I'm happier than I have ever been. And it is largely based on the perception of myself that I can survive anything.”