Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused. — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper. — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods, She wears what No others dare” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“It’s self-expression, like an art to me. In the club, I direct the scenes and control the crowds. I draw them into… — Ruby Rowe Copy Share Image
People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you. — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Love yourself for who you are but not what you see others want you to be...express yourself the way you feel best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“What do you really want? Did you know that every single one of your desires is an expression of your soul's longing… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“Saying that “life is short” is such a cliche. And it’s true. In fact, we only have five minutes to be here.… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite… — Evan Guerra Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason,… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“You're crackers.” “Marvelous isn't it? I find it's the only way to be.” — Paul Magrs Copy Share Image
A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression. — Lawrence Fertig Copy Share Image
“Romantic Egoist Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
“Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Style, to me, is an extension of one's personality, a kind of self expression which is very personal. It is an expression… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career, and the art would be something I did for… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image