Quotes About Self-expression

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

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.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun.

I want to be a living work of art.

I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

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.

The child will reveal himself through work.

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.