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“I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.”

Self Alive Painting Expression Oil Engagement Self Expression Sensory

Author:Carmen Ejogo

“Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, "Hey, listen to me." Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.”

World Art Self Artist Song Expression Keys Elements Standing Observation Hey Chests Self Expression Hallmark Listen To Me

Author:George Carlin

“I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.”

Thinking World Self Moments Talking Subjects Expression Depends Response All Time Self Expression Outside World

Author:George Carlin

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

Self Expression Reader Self Expression Bloggers

Author:Lee Gutkind

“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.”

Ends Self Hard Havens Expression Selfish Self Expression

Book:A Burnt-Out Case

Source: A Burnt-Out Case

“Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.”

Heart Self Silence Expression Manifestation Meant To Be Self Expression

Book:Sheer joy: conversations with Thomas Aquinas on creation spirituality

Source: Sheer joy: conversations with Thomas Aquinas on creation spirituality

“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.”

Ifs Knows World Years Mean Art Made Self Moments Bigs Wanted School Expression Huge Amount Art Is Decided Intention Feds Emphasis Self Expression Art School Art Education

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.”

Self Universe Expression Delight Self Expression

Book:Ideas of Power

Source: Ideas of Power

“Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.”

Needs Self Whole Together Spirit Force Expression Flow Essence Permit Within You Self Expression Binding Radiance Saturated Essence Of Life

Book:This Thing Called You

Source: This Thing Called You

“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.”

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“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.”

Art I Can Self Moments Remember Form Felt Emotional Expression Clothes Mood Because I Can Self Expression

Author:Diane Kruger

“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.”

Way Self Stuff Expression Skills Self Expression Diarrhea

Author:John Leguizamo

“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.”

Littles Self Girl Found Hours Rooms Expression Piano Hanging Out Buddy Self Expression Found You

Author:John Leguizamo

“It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.”

Self Expression Tasks Take Time Self Expression It Takes Time

Author:John Leguizamo

“Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.”

Looks Art Self Inspiration Opportunity Nations Millions Creative Rich Expression Communication Source Pride Heritage Diverse Self Expression Cultural Heritage

Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.”

Soul Self Play Form Expression My Soul Self Expression Skating

Author:Josee Chouinard

“Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.”

Self Expression Crafts Self Expression Toddler

Author:Rosanne Cash

“You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.”

Men Needs Littles Doe Self Artist Natural Expression Excited Scope Self Expression Little Man Natural Gifts

Book:Travesties

Source: Travesties

“Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.”

Giving Mind Self Artist Practice Color Expression Easier Access Canvas Masterpiece Self Expression Palette Captivating

Author:Jim Rohn

“If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.”

Ifs Self America Form Cry Expression Golf Clubs Native Customs Primitive Tribes Chill Spine Self Expression Anthropologists

Author:Dave Barry

“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.”

Writing Art Self Space Novel Conditions Expression Gains Various Visuals Articles Conventions Restriction Self Expression Visual Art

Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

“A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Self Joy Love Is Expression Labor Fulfillment Self Expression Exalted Personal Fulfillment Labor Of Love Fulfillment In Life

Book:What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.”

Self Opportunity Individual Virtue Expression Offers Enterprise Self Expression Free Enterprise

Book:Prosperity through freedom

Source: Prosperity through freedom

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

Self Expression Bills Tunes Vehicle Self Expression

Book:Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

Source: Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

“We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.”

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

Thinking Mean Important Self Wonderful Fashion Expression Self Expression

Author:Brie Larson

“Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so.”

People Ifs World Mean Persons Self Wish Technology Expression Self Worth Paradise Humankind Shelter Self Expression

Book:Mutant Message Down Under

Source: Mutant Message Down Under

“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”

“To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.”

Self Records Expression Photography Window Mirrors Self Expression

Author:Eikoh Hosoe

“Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.”

World Firsts Art Self Artist Expression Documentaries Self Expression

Book:Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

Source: Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

“The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.”

Children Self Possibility Expression Demand Spontaneous Can Not Self Expression

Author:John Dewey

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

Needs Self Remember Expression Pauses Self Expression

Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“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.”

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

People Self Expression Drug Associates Self Expression Rave

Author:Wyclef Jean

“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.”

“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.”

Should Self Form Order Creative Cutting Expression Complicated Private Life Self Expression Creative Work Complicated Things

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Long Self Form Artist Term Expression Approach Decades Long Term Self Expression

Author:DJ Shadow

“I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.”

People Needs Mean Self Young Passion Understanding Expression Right Now Tired Driven Abandon Self Expression

Author:Debbie Allen

“Fashion is fun, and fashion is a form of art and self-expression. And I think it should have a wink-wink nature to it. For me, it's about the way it makes you feel. If you want to feel sexy, you want to feel bright, you want to feel good. That's what people are attracted to - when they see you execute an emotion or an idea clearly and proudly.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Should Art Ideas Self Form Fun Emotion Fashion Expression Should Have Sexy Feel Good Self Expression

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.”

Feels Writing I Can Self Talking Expression Extremes Analysis Prose Self Expression Self Analysis

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”

Facts Faces Change Expression Thrive Self Expression Being Sad Change Is Good

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“In the documentary space, the biggest and most obvious difference is that in those films you're not in it for a financial gain. It's a piece of collaboration and artistic expression, that pushes change and self expression, in the sense that everyone has a story.”

Film Financial Obvious Artistic Collaboration Self Expression

Author:Julie Smolyansky

“My singing - it's who I am, it's all of me and it's my soul. The self expression of using your vocal equipment is not only physical and spiritual, but it's something you can't explain. It's your heart and soul together. Yes, I enjoy acting, but I portray other people. But when I sing, it's just me on that stage, communicating how I feel, how I think and what I believe.”

People Thinking Believe Heart Soul Together Spiritual I Believe Enjoy Acting Singing Communicate Heart And Soul Self Expression

Author:Nia Vardalos

“I guess I just developed more of an interest to actually be a part of the design, picking out the fabric and just being more involved. I never really considered myself a fashion person, but then I just realized that fashion is just another way of self expression and that's pretty much what I'm most passionate about.”

Interest Fashion Design Passionate Self Expression Just Realized

Author:Jhene Aiko

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

“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.”

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Author:Ansel Adams

“Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.”

Mind Art Self Inspiration Given Expression Conscious Art Is Labels Agency Self Expression

Author:Norman Lindsay

“I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.”

Self Form Design Expression Details Self Expression

Author:John Malkovich

“I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.”

Ifs Self Sometimes Care Quality Expression Poetic Aphorism Surreal Tweet Self Expression

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.”

Ifs Believe Self Form I Believe Fashion Expression Depends Ultimate Mood Self Expression

Author:Nicole Richie

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