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Self Expression Quotes & Sayings

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I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want! — Ariana Grande

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express. — Graham Greene

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us. — Ansel Adams

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. — Israel Shahak

Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry. — Shilpa Sandesh

An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism: — David Bentley Hart

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. — Alexander Von Humboldt

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day. — Stephanie Perkins

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it. — Marty Rubin

But for many of us, there is no form of self-expression that makes us feel more vulnerable than dancing. It is full body vulnerability". — Brene Brown

Faith to me is a form of self-expression, like a work of art, a manifestation of freedom, not a tool for mindless conformity. — Sahar El-Nadi

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. — Pearl S. Buck

My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from which only water was drunk. — Fernando Pessoa

Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African. — Goapele

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. — Edward Hopper

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. — Ralph Marston

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. — Vladimir Kramnik

A lonely impulse of delight — W.B.Yeats

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime. — George Barr

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

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression. — Edgar Winter

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

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. — Charles Baudelaire

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit. — Paul Carus

The mere act of sharing something can, in other words, be a form of self-expression. — Tom Standage

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free. — Madonna

Self-education only produces expressions of self. — Robert Henri

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. — Fay Weldon

The singing I like best is when I sing. — Marty Rubin

Writing is a mysterious activity. — Susan Sontag

I refuze (refuse) to allow society to dictate my limitations. — Tony Kates

Clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression. — Radclyffe Hall

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood. — Nicole Richie

Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit...aching to express Itself — Paresh Shah

He is the self-expression of the Father - what the Father has to say. And there never was a time when He was not saying it. — C.S. Lewis

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle. — Criss Jami

Telling the willow not to weep only makes it weep more. — Marty Rubin

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me! — Henry James

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. — Donnie Yen

Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect. — Debasish Mridha

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. — James Q. Wilson

Jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. — Anais Nin

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that. — Shania Twain

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. — Alice Walker

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. — Charles Eames

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. — Mark Jacobs

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper. — Gordon Lish

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self. — Carl Jung

Every act is an expression of one's self. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. — Slash

A world view is probably an expression of self. — Michael Leunig

Never dull your shine for somebody else. — Tyra Banks

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. — Vivienne Westwood

Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in. — Melinda Gebbie

Self expression is a vital part of understanding life, and enjoying it to the full. — Oliver Bowden

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in. — John Turturro

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers. — Rosanne Cash

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization ... Search within ... for honest self- expression. — Bruce Lee

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. — Whit Burnett

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. — Gustave Flaubert

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness. — Sharon Salzberg

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . — Thurgood Marshall

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. — Allen Ginsberg

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. — Oscar Wilde

I be wanting to speak on stuff sometimes, but Spirit be like, "Leave that shit alone, hear?" And I be like, "Yes, ma'am. — Trelani Michelle

Tricking is a evolution of innovative movement & self Expression. — Armin Houman

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all. — Salvador Dali

So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica. — Robert McCloskey

I'm often painted as the bad kid,
The other side of me wants to hand out the brush — Patrick Cruz

I feel your words on my lips
and feel your mood in my hips — Maquita Donyel Irvin

The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for — Oliver James

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

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. — Marcel Duchamp

Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression. — Brie Larson

Success is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of the expression of your infinite potential. — Sakshi Chetana

The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs. — Debasish Mridha

Authentic leadership is the full expression of "me" for the benefit of "we". — Henna Inam

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind's need or capacity for self-estrangement. — Susan Sontag

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck

Romantic Egoist
Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head ... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try. — Bisco Hatori

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self. — Vidal Sassoon

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

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. — George Orwell

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy. — Phil Cooke

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

I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker. — Jillian Keenan

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly

Words are not simply an expression of the self; they help to create the self. In struggling to say what we are, we become what we say. — Thomas S. Kane

The self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. — Arthur Koestler

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression. — Lawrence Fertig

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness. — Vladimir Nabokov

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. — Bennie Wallace

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self — Russell Simmons

Add your splash of color to the world. — Connor Franta