Quotes About Self-expression

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

but I feel as if I have said everything of importance that I need to say, I feel as if I'm losing my memory and forgetting who I am.

Lo que perturba es el riesgo de ser diferente, y el horror de ser igual...

And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don't fit with what we call "maturity.

The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop seeking.

He slugged back the last of his coffee and stood. Nobody gets me, sweetheart. And if I want anything you've got, you'll know the minute I come after it.

They too struggle with the expectation to look sexy but not to feel sexual, to provoke desire in others without experience it themselves. Our daughters may not be faced with the decision of whether to strip for maxim, but they will have to figure out how to become sexual beings without being objectified or stigmatized.

If toting the standard equipment is not what male or female, exactly what does? well, duh, its barrettes. At least thats what kids think it is your clothing, hairstyle, toy choice, favorite color. Slippery stuff, that. You can see how perilously easy would be to err

interestingly, after age forty, men become the more dominant selfie posters—perhaps in midlife, women unconsciously render themselves invisible).

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

I, in the end, make art for myself.