“To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.”

“When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.”

“It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.”

“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”

“The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.”

“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”

“To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.”

“A painting is not a battle against other people, but against oneself.”