Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.
I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here.
I still don't look like what I think I look like.
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.
I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.
As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
