Personal Expression Quotes

• Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

  Joseph Conrad

  Flower, Garden, Expression

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1153, e-artnow

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• I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Freedom

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• The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

  Michael Schenker

  Beautiful, Art, Expression

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• Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.

  Charles A. Didier

  Expression, Kind, Form

  "Language:A Divine Way of Communicating" by Charles A. Didier, www.lds.org. October 1979.

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• I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Dream, Expression, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Expression, Everyday Objects

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Expression, Want

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 58, 1948.

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• In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Integrity, Moving, Expression

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• One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Meaningful, Art, Attitude

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• Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

  Charles Duhigg

  Song, Expression, Listening

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• The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

  Larry R. Thompson

  Creativity, Expression, Ideas

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• What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Expression, People

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• What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Creativity, Expression

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.11, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Artist, Expression

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.

  ASAP Rocky

  Expression, Clothes, Feelings

  "A$AP Rocky's Beautiful Dark Twisted Wardrobe" by Caroline Mccloskey, www.gq.com. July 10, 2012.

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• At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

  Nathanael West

  College, Expression, Years

  Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself.

  Nina Garcia

  Life Changing, Expression, Style

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• It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Light, Expression

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• But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Expression, Stills

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• Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Views, Expression, Ideas

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• There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, 
  mounted to best advantage.

  Robert Genn

  Winning, Expression, Feelings

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.35, Studio Beckett Publications

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• PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

  Greg Graffin

  Growing Up, Expression, Punk

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• It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.

  Agyness Deyn

  Girl, Strong, Expression

  "See Agyness Deyn's Second Dr. Martens Collection and Campaign" by Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.elle.com. February 4, 2013.

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• The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

  R. Carlos Nakai

  Communication, Mean, Expression

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