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• In an age of abstract experience, fornication
  Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,
  And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients;
  Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule,
  Are precious.

  Allen Tate

  Christian, Self, Expression

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.16, Macmillan

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• ... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Art, Writing

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.133, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

  Allan Sekula

  Art, Self, Expression

  Allan Sekula, Illinois State University. University Galleries (1999). “Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996”, Illinois State Univ

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• It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

  Elizabeth I

  Art, Self, Expression

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• Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?

  David First

  Song, Strong, Hate

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Art, Self, Expression

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• I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.

  Michael Shannon

  Dog, Self, Expression

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Fashion, Self, Expression

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• Ive been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Teacher, School, Self

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• I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.

  Margaret Cho

  Tattoo, Thinking, Self

  "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

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• There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Love Is, Men, Self

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement”, p.181, Main Street Books

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• Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

  Hannah Arendt

  Acceptance, Self, Expression

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• Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

  Janet Jackson

  Real, Heart, Expression

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

  P. M. Forni

  Respect, Nice, Communication

  "Einstein Was a Mensch" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

  Henry Wriston

  Life, War, Self

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• Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Struggle, Self, Expression

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• I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Self, Expression

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I guess I just developed more of an interest to actually be a part of the design, picking out the fabric and just being more involved. I never really considered myself a fashion person, but then I just realized that fashion is just another way of self expression and that's pretty much what I'm most passionate about.

  Jhene Aiko

  Fashion, Design, Passionate

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.

  Ernest Holmes

  Self, Expression, Essence

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.106, Penguin

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• clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Self, Expression, Clothes

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.84, Radclyffe Hall

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• I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Children, Air

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• While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Mean, Self, Expression

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• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

  Terence McKenna

  Caring, Self, Expression

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• I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.

  Brie Larson

  Fashion, Mean, Thinking

  "Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Art, Self

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