Quotes About Self-expression

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Don't hide behind a limitation in the way you look. Use it to shout to the world that you love life.

she scrubbed floors on her knees with a contemptuous hissing noise which must have come from her brush, though it seemed to come out of herself.

Besides that, he thought it was essential for them to learn how to get up in front of people & express their ideas clearly & freely without being embarrassed, so he decided to put his theory into practice.

A genius is the one most like himself.

CATHERINE: I can't write from Diana's point of view. MARY: Of course you can. You're a writer; you can write anything. Just find your inner Diana. CATHERINE: I don't have an inner Diana. DIANA: Ha! You wish. Everyone has an inner Diana.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

A new way of looking is needed in a world which believes that every individual has a right to flower, within limits, in his or her own way.

The quickest way to improve your self-esteem is to be yourself.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

Be not the slave of Words.

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.