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  • Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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.

    Self   Expression   Might  
  • Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

    Art   Self   Expression  
  • I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

  • clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

    Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.84, Radclyffe Hall
  • I truly, genuinely like clothes. Making them is an art form, and wearing them is a form of self-expression. I find it very emotional because I can remember moments in my life - my mood, how I felt - through these clothes.

    Art   Emotional   Self  
    "Meet Diane Kruger, Our Style Icon". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2011.
  • Never dull your shine for somebody else.

    FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011
  • Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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

    Self   Expression   Tasks  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

    Power   Men   Expression  
  • A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

    Lawrence Fertig (1961). “Prosperity through freedom”
  • I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.

    Dog   Self   Expression  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

    Self   Expression   Joy  
    Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.67, Penguin
  • 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 (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.597, e-artnow
  • Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.

    Art   Self   Expression  
  • Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    Life   Art   Expression  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.164, GENERAL PRESS
  • Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

    Spiritual   Mean   Men  
  • You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.123, Penguin
  • 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.

    Lying   Self   Expression  
  • All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

    "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.
  • We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

  • 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.

    Art   Creativity   Self  
    Interview with Ryan and Tina Essmaker, thegreatdiscontent.com. April 1, 2014.
  • Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.

    Virginia Mae Axline, (2013). “Play Therapy - The Inner Dynamics of Childhood”, p.15, Read Books Ltd
  • Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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

    Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.
  • While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

    Mean   Self   Expression  
  • My singing - it's who I am, it's all of me and it's my soul. The self expression of using your vocal equipment is not only physical and spiritual, but it's something you can't explain. It's your heart and soul together. Yes, I enjoy acting, but I portray other people. But when I sing, it's just me on that stage, communicating how I feel, how I think and what I believe.

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

    Music   Self   Expression  
  • 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 (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult
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