Wolfgang Tillmans Quotes

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure.

We read books to find out who we are.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I love winter. It's a beautiful time, but also a melancholic time, a reflective time, and I'd come to a point in my life where I felt I had to make certain decisions about my career.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

There are things that I need to work on, that I have worked on, and that I'll continue to work on.

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.