Quotes About Self Expression

#1. For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

Tyler Cowen

#2. Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, "Hey, listen to me." Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.

George Carlin

#3. To associate art with the artist is to forfeit art, because at this moment we are pushed into the arena of self-expression, and can be recognized only by what differentiates us from others.

Anthony Marais

#4. Self expression is a vital part of understanding life, and enjoying it to the full.

Oliver Bowden

#5. Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

James Q. Wilson

#6. Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Mickey Hart

#7. My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

John Turturro

#8. The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression .

Thurgood Marshall

#9. In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child 's soul with poetry every day.

Hermann Hesse

#10. But for many of us, there is no form of self-expression that makes us feel more vulnerable than dancing. It is full body vulnerability".

Brene Brown

#11. A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

Lawrence Fertig

#12. Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

Richard Peck

#13. Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so.

Marlo Morgan

#14. There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

Aldous Huxley

#16. Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

Iris Apfel

#17. Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

Kenny Werner

#18. What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.

Dermot Davis

#19. Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.

Douglas Rushkoff

#20. I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

Debbie Allen

#21. You will leave this course being a
leader and exercising leadership effectively as your natural
self-expression in any situation
and no matter what the
circumstances.

Werner Erhard

#22. Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Pearl S. Buck

#23. Decadent self-expression has no place in rock and roll.

Dave Marsh

#24. The conclusion is that both emotional poverty and an aversion to company are not symptoms of autism but consequences of autism, its harsh lockdown on self-expression and society's near-pristine ignorance about what's happening inside autistic heads.

Naoki Higashida

#25. Faith to me is a form of self-expression, like a work of art, a manifestation of freedom, not a tool for mindless conformity.

Sahar El-Nadi

#26. When we learn to live well in this life with nothing left unsaid or undone we find peace, freedom and full self-expression. With that, we are capable of anything.

Jacqueline Harrison

#27. There is no hint here that preaching is thought of primarily as self-expression
of subjective experience or feeling-disclosure or autobiography or 'telling one's story' so as to neglect Scripture."275 It is the Word that is to be preached.

Ben Witherington III

#28. With some people it makes a regular battlefield of the human heart - this struggle for self-expression," said Philip. "You are going to do beautiful work in the world, and do it well.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#29. A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

Robin S. Sharma

#30. We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ...

Julia Cameron

#31. Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.

Jane Heap

#32. Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.

Arianna Huffington

#33. It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

Charles Eames

#34. Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.

Mathew Tobriner

#35. Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art ... because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

Oscar Wilde

#36. What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...

Wendy Kaminer

#37. Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

Graham Greene

#38. Compassion is essential, but it's not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.

Vironika Tugaleva

#39. In an age of abstract experience, fornication
Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,
And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients;
Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule,
Are precious.

Allen Tate

#40. No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

C. Day Lewis

#41. I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

Dylan Thomas

#42. Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in.

Melinda Gebbie

#43. Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Semir Zeki

#44. She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#45. In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or ... art or self-expression.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

#46. We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Max Stirner

#47. In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

Edmund Phelps

#48. I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

Ira Glass

#49. Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization ... Search within ... for honest self- expression.

Bruce Lee

#50. Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#51. Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

Zadie Smith

#52. what this instruction cannot give is the deepest benefit of any art, be it of making, or of knowing, or of experiencing: which is self-expression and self-discovery.

John Fowles

#53. you aren't alone because you are ugly or unattractive - you are alone because everyone, including you, is afraid to express themselves - practice self expression and the world is yours

David Charles Cain

#54. Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression.

Jane Smiley

#55. People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.

Wyclef Jean

#56. Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

Bennie Wallace

#57. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.

P.G. Wodehouse

#58. It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Elizabeth I

#59. Writing is self-expression and no matter how complex the idea might be in the head when it is put in paper, it simplifies. It gives pleasure. It keeps track of who we are. Keeping a habit of writing is very beneficial to anyone. It is a bliss.

Bishwas Mishra

#60. Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self expression is a function of responsibility.

Werner Erhard

#61. The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

Felix Frankfurter

#62. You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

Tom Stoppard

#63. People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.

Caroline Myss

#64. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

Dennis Kimbro

#65. I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

John Malkovich

#66. I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#67. I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.

Jon Foreman

#68. Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

Fannie Farmer

#69. I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

David Duchovny

#70. To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

Octavio Paz

#71. Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.

Phil Cousineau

#72. Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Matthew Fox

#73. Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expression. Rather, it was an expression of the essence of a
people.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#74. Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Austin Kleon

#75. Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

Janet Jackson

#76. Tricking is a evolution of innovative movement & self Expression.

Armin Houman

#77. I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

Ansel Adams

#78. I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

Edgar Winter

#79. No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

Julie Burchill

#80. When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#81. For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Rudyard Kipling

#82. I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.

Geoffrey Household

#83. All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.

Ernest Holmes

#84. When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to "prove" our worth but to live our possibilities.

Nathaniel Branden

#85. Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

Varg Vikernes

#86. That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to excel, to win.

Dale Carnegie

#87. Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

Slash

#88. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

Nathaniel Branden

#89. Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

Dale Carnegie

#90. To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

Mark Jacobs

#91. I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want!

Ariana Grande

#92. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history ... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

Ronald Reagan

#93. Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Louise Bourgeois

#94. Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

Rabindranath Tagore

#95. I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess.

Lena Headey

#96. It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

John Leguizamo

#97. A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

Alexander Lowen

#98. Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.

Patrick Williams

#99. For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.

Anna Dello Russo

#100. I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.

Margaret Cho