Self Expression Quotes - Page 5

• Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

  Hannah Arendt

  Acceptance, Self, Expression

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• I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Art, Self, Expression

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Real, Heart, Expression

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

  P. M. Forni

  Respect, Nice, Communication

  "Einstein Was a Mensch" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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

  Elizabeth I

  Art, Self, Expression

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• But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.

  David Foster Wallace

  Children, Loneliness, Divorce

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

  Fannie Farmer

  Art, Mean, Self

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

  Patrick Williams

  Self, Expression, Coaching

  Lloyd J. Thomas, Patrick Williams (2011). “Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice . . . and Your Life”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!

  James St. James

  Mean, Self, Expression

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• 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.

  Self, Expression, Essence

  Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

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• 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

  Sports, Opportunity, Self

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.71, Conari Press

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

  Caroline Myss

  Self, Expression, People

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Why People Don't Heal and How They Can”, p.7, Harmony

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• The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

  Dave Eggers

  Couple, Keys, Light

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• I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Responsibility, Keys

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.11, Hazelden Publishing

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• For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

  Helen Vendler

  Self, Expression, Criticism

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• 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

  Art, Creativity, Responsibility

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

  Andre Gide

  Art, Self, Expression

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• 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

  Art, Creativity, Self

  Interview with Ryan and Tina Essmaker, thegreatdiscontent.com. April 1, 2014.

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• 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

  Life, Freedom, Moving

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want to. Subconsciously or not, the figures I paint are a reflection of myself and whatever mood I am in at the time, so every painting is in essence a self-portrait.

  Lori Earley

  Mean, Reflection, Self

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• My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles]. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.

  Alice Glass

  Art, Honesty, Self

  FaceBook post by Alice Glass from Oct 08, 2014

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• As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Lying, Self

  Julia Cameron (2001). “Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way”, p.31, Penguin

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• Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Eye, Expression

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• The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Unique, Self

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• A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if not positively unpleasant. Consciously or not some persons look upon God as a hard taskmaster, or a severe parent. . . . The truth is that the will of God for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, newer and brighter experience, wider opportunity of service to others-life more abundant.

  Emmet Fox

  God, Mistake, Mean

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