"To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature." ― Martha Beck Topic(s): Art More From Martha Beck "My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day." "Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain." "We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster." More In Art "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."― Igor Stravinsky "Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."― Karl Kraus "I’m not dead and I don’t have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it’s fine. I think it’s beautiful and a real work of art."― Helena Bonham Carter