Self Expression Quotes

151 quotes by 140 authors

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. Youâ€™ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man.… — Tom Robbins
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. — John Green
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isnâ€™t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable… — Neil Gaiman
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
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently… — Fernando Pessoa
Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books. — Aldous Huxley
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. — Ted Andrews
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. — Bennie Wallace
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. — Pearl S. Buck
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. — Marc Jacobs
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself… — Nathaniel Branden
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This… — Sarah Churchwell
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of… — John Updike
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? — C. Day Lewis
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. — Charles Eames
No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent… — Julie Burchill
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… — Ayad Akhtar
Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots of time to… — Marshall McLuhan

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