Quotes About Self-expression

My music is me letting the world know how confident I am in myself, and me basically telling other women - and guys - how confident and how comfortable I believe they should be.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

I like having my lips done. It's my personal thing; it makes me happy. I'm honest about it; I could lie. At least I'm telling the truth!

I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

I have sung a couple of songs in Telugu and Hindi films, but I was not happy with that. So, I thought of doing an album. I do not know how people will react.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.

He didn't have to maintain his pride or protect his image. I wasn't his parent or his priest, so he had no obligation to confess. I didn't judge him, so he had no reason to be defensive. I didn't expect him to be anyone, so he had no reason to be anyone but himself. He just needed to get those stories out, to purge an evil spirit.

I am A man, not a sponge! If god wished a sponge to think, A SPONGE WOULD THINK!

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

In the realm of thought majorities do not determine. Each brain is a kingdom, each mind is a sovereign.

Do whatever you want with this dedication, but don't— don't— use it on your eyebrows.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it?" The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Revel in your freedom. Live wholeheartedly, laugh loud, love much, spread joy, be truthful, and give yourself to everything. You, who are already whole, can lose nothing. Your ego may fall from time to time, but you will not. Live big!

MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and "self-expression" in kindergarten. By the 1970s, the historical study of modern art had expanded to the point where students were scratching for unexploited thesis subjects. By the mid-eighties, twenty-one-year-old art-history majors would be writing papers on the twenty-six-year-old graffitists.

smart people who get bad grades are listening to their inner voice, doing what they believe is interesting and right.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Uno es lo que produce.

I grow too merry, when I stand in my nakedness to dress.