Self-expression Quotes

When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invi...

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeli...

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, alt...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition ...

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really y...

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by sca...

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that ev...

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness...

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whis...

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole ...

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was ...

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of eli...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the trut...

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really comm...

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the de...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be...

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But i...

Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervou...