Quotes About Self-expression

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?

De notities van Louise Bourgeois tonen hoe ze haar angsten en genot probeerde te verwoorden en vorm te geven in de praktijk van haar kunst. Ik twijfel er geen ogenblik aan dat ze daarmee haar leven leefbaarder gemaakt heeft. Vermoedelijk wist Louise niet dat zij met deze constante observatie van haarzelf, haar lichaam en haar verhouding met anderen aan zelfzorg deed.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it

The gentry protect their names like hymens, They suck their names like thumbs, But they sign their names and something happens. While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer, All day, and nothing happens.

I is what I is.

Obviously he'd seen my own failings in the pages, though I'd only meant to show him how clever my dialogue was, and how gaspingly well I'd described the sea.

I wasn't raised to acknowledge my own feelings, let alone stick up for myself like that. That's movie dialogue, not real life.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to find the right thing to say and didn't trust the etiquette pendulum swinging in her head, so she simply said nothing, which was perceived either as painful shyness of haughtiness. Dasha never had that problem. She just said the first thing that came into her head. Tatiana knew she needed to rust her inner voice more. It was certainly loud enough

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: dont be intimidated by other peoples opinions.

Talvez seja este o sentido mais exato da alfabetização: aprender a escrever a sua vida como autor e como testemunha de sua história, isto é, biografar-se, existenciar-se, historicizar-se.

isso de querer ser exatamente aquilo que a gente é ainda vai nos levar além

I think you create your own hipness.

I don't want to fight for anything. I want to just be and do, with no one saying they're letting me.

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from "Todo Sobre Mi Madre

It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

Fingimos lo que somos; seamos lo que fingimos.

Oddly enough, the more tired you get as you write and rewrite, the more likely you are to abandon any self-conscious semi-stentorian writing and write more like yourself. Fatigue lets you emerge. This is good.)

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

Gays feel about popularity the same way teenage girls do. Is it that we really want friends we can count on, or do we just want guys around us whom we can share our curlers with?

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure—in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.

To extend oneself does not necessarily mean to have an erection.