Self Expression Quotes
Tony DeLiso
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
1741Tony DeLiso
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
1971 Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
4295 Jacob Nordby
Writer's block is just another name for fear.
3117 Tawny Lara
Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.
1972 Tawny Lara
Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion
3228 Franz Kafka
However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them
1181 Harvey Fierstein
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
3531 Oliver James
Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for
2185 Tyra Banks
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
1831 Ralph Waldo Emerson
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
3390 Rob Liano
When you have passion, you don't need coffee.
2042 Linda Ellerbee
If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
4327 Auliq Ice
Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.
1126 Anthon St. Maarten
There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.
3154 Ansel Adams
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
3714 Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
1312 Ansel Adams
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
4035 Ansel Adams
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
4612 Jack Kerouac
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
3124 Edward Hopper
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
1263 Henri Matisse
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
3390 Robert Henri
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?
2553 Robert Henri
Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.
3745 Peter Santos
When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and limitation and allow our Spirit Within to express itself.
2430 Jaeda DeWalt
My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.
3662 Mahatma Gandhi
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
2081 Marty Rubin
The singing I like best is when I sing.
1264 Jaeda DeWalt
Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.
1079 Dorothy L. Sayers
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
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