143 Quotes About Self-expression

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.