#expression

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#beethoven #expression #masters #means #pulse

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#around #awed #been #built #challenge

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#constant #doctrine #expression #liberalism #probably

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. ↗

— Martha Graham

#be-yourself #creativity #dance #dancing #expression

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. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#creativity #literary-criticism #self-expression #art

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#expression #god #life #religion #art

His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual should prescribe to, instead his only ambition was to be at peace with himself, if he could achieve that than anything else he might need would follow. From now on he would question all things in life, but especially the rules and regulations of all authority institutions; he would take nothing on face value and only would accept what he personally knew to undeniably be true. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#choices #freedom-of-expression #inner-peace #questioning-authority #freedom

How many times in life have I been advised to "toe the line," to "tone it down," to stop "pushing the envelope"? As a journalist, I had to keep my opinions to myself for 30 years. I thought that, as an artist, I'd have the liberty to express my views. Now I'm told that doing so might hurt my readership. I'm so idealistic, as I said elsewhere on FB today, that I think people ought to read my books because they're good. Period. ↗

— Sherry Jones

#idealism #freedom

Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#freedom

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

— Stephanie Perkins

#individuality #self-expression #life