Quotes About Self-expression

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

I am unapologetically myself, no matter what anyone's opinion is.

I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

I may speak my mind and come across as opinionated sometimes, but I would never want to harm anyone intentionally.

Just because I am an opinionated and strong girl doesn't mean that I don't believe in vanity.

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter, who on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

I know you will laugh at me, he replied, but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the soul itself, the soul of each one of us, is to each one of us a mystery. It hides in the dark and broods, and consciousness cannot tell us of its workings. Consciousness, indeed, is quite inadequate to explain the contents of personality. It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you?" He shook his head. "To-night she is Imogen," he answered, "and to-morrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people.

But the world might guess it; and I will not bare my soul to their shallow, prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. There is too much of myself in the thing, Harry--too much of myself!

shit, I'll show these fuckers! We'll see who can take fucking drugs. Do they realize who I am? Don't you know I can eat the God-damned hottest fucking hot sauce in the world.

You make me sound like an arrogant ass, he said. Are you? No! I'm just me.

The ability to accessorize is what elevates us from lower-life forms, I said in my lecture voice, choosing a pair of diamond-studded drops for my ear. Like men.

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?

She looked like a tomato struggling for self – expression.

My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.