#express

Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intentions #motives #oppose #motivational

And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment she had become himself. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, not what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you. [...] And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself. And that the whole conception had been written wrong. Because the only part of any man that he can ever touch or understand is that part of himself he recognises in him. And that he is always looking for the way in which he can expose his sealed bee cell and reach the other airtight cells with which he is connected in the waxy comb. And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with a bugle. If you had a bugle here, he told himself, you could speak to her and be understood, you could play Fatigue Call for her, with its tiredness, its heavy belly going out to sweep somebody else's streets when it would rather stay home and sleep, she would understand it then. But you havent got a bugle, himself said, not here nor any other place. Your tongue has been ripped out. All you got is two bottles, one nearly full, one nearly empty. ↗

— James Jones

#expression #loneliness #love #music #soul

There is no need to always require a smile! Happiness is more of a look in the eyes, than a smile on the face! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#quotes-on-happiness #smile-happiness-expression #the-expression-of-happiness #the-nature-of-happiness #nature

I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right way to draw and more with letting our feelings flow through our hand. In this way, we stretch our dynamic nature. Our larger goal should be to draw in a way that expresses our vision. ↗

— Bert Dodson

#expressing #nature

Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their heart ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#creativity #emotions #freedom-of-expression #trends #writing

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ↗

— Rebecca West

#been #call #differentiate #doormat #express

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#self-determination #self-expression #right

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#expression #freud #repression #self-expression #emotion

Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#artists #freedom-of-expression #art

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#be-yourself #expression #yourself #idea