Self Expression Quotes - Page 8

• The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you’ll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Love You, Creativity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.234, Bantam

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• Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

  Lee Gutkind

  Self, Expression, Reader

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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

  Julia Cameron

  Self, Expression, Needs

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.132, Penguin

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• 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

  Attitude, Self, Expression

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.26, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

  Agnes Repplier

  Passion, Writing, Heart

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• 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

  Fashion, Mean, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.

  Astra Taylor

  Expression, Self, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Wyclef Jean

  Self, Expression, People

  "We Played Two Truths And A Lie With Wyclef Jean And The Knocks". Interview with Ezra Marcus, livenation.vice.com. January 22, 2016.

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• The system that keeps cosmic beings in a bullshit frame of mind of what existence is to make money off them, use them for their own sick games, perpetuate religions and fear, keeping them small in their heads when they are the divine and we are one force of creative love light mind in a universe of co-creation, cosmic experience, self-expression who should be completely sustained by the cosmos without these power-pigs who kill bodies with chemicals and enslave minds and hide the truths of the universe from them and deal with aliens.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  Expression, Games, Light

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

  Elena Ferrante

  Cutting, Self, Expression

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.301, Penguin

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• If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form of self-expression, and that's certainly how I approach my music.

  DJ Shadow

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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

  Felix Frankfurter

  Self, Expression, Greed

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

  Stephanie Mills

  Music, Self, Expression

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• If you copy then it is not self-expression.

  Michael Schenker

  Self, Expression, Copies

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• Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.

  John Leguizamo

  Girl, Self, Expression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Kenny Werner

  Self, Expression, Tunes

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, School, Mean

  "Andy Goldsworthy Goes Into The Wind". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Self, Expression

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.62, Metropolitan Books

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• 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.

  Diane Kruger

  Art, Emotional, Self

  "Meet Diane Kruger, Our Style Icon". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2011.

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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.

  John Leguizamo

  Skills, Self, Expression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

  Rebecca West

  Morning, Food, Mean

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• For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Feet, Light

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Expression

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• An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Lying, Healing

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• 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

  Art, Writing, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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