"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
— Noam Chomsky

"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- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Music is an outburst of the soul."
— Frederick Delius

"'It's so hard to express yourself.'
'I understand this.'
'I want to express myself.'
'The same is true for me.'
'I'm looking for my voice.'
'It's in your mouth.'
'I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.'
'Something you are proud of, yes?'
'Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.'"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)

""Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."
"Work?" Tally said.
They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up."
— James Baldwin

"i want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Beware the anger of a patient man."
— James Patterson (Cross (Alex Cross, Book 12))

"With you I find the words to write. With you I hear the most meaningful songs. With you, I find beauty in the most simplest & yet most rare things. With you, everything becomes a thing-- with complete meaning."
— http: yaneygirl.blogspot.com

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

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— Ansel Adams

"Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden

Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently."
— Rosa Luxemburg

"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."
— Alphonse de Lamartine

"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
— Ansel Adams

"Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time."
— Marc Jacobs

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Where there is greater pain, comes a thousand letters of expression."
— http: yaneygirl.blogspot.com

"I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."
— Mark Rothko

"It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings."
— John Christopher (The Sword of the Spirits)

"From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails"
— Steve Aylett

"A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in Bioy Casares’s novel The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata (1989). The hero Nicolasito Almanza declares: ‘I am convinced that all of photography depends on the moment we press the release […] I believe that you’re a photographer if you know exactly when to press the release.’ In making this declaration he is responding to the opinion expressed by Mr Gruter, owner of a photographic laboratory: ‘[…] sometimes I wonder if the true work of the photographer doesn’t begin in the dark room, amid the trays and the enlarger.’"
— Clive Scott (Spoken Image)

"She was not one for emptying her face of expression. "
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

"I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society."
— Man Ray

"Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabulary, in how they express causation and feelings and personal responsibility, hence in how they shape our thoughts. There's no single purpose "best" language; instead, different languages are better suited for different purposes. For instance, it may not have been an accident that Plato and Aristotle wrote in Greek, while Kant wrote in German. The grammatical particles of those two languages, plus their ease in forming compound words, may have helped make them the preeminent languages of western philosophy. Another example, familiar to all of us who studied Latin, is that highly inflected languages (ones in which word endings suffice to indicate sentence structure) can use variations of word order to convey nuances impossible with English. Our English word order is severely constrained by having to serve as the main clue to sentence structure. If English becomes a world language, that won't be because English was necessarily the best language for diplomacy."
— Jared Diamond (The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal)

"There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

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— Charles Dickens (Nikolas Nickleby)

"A good author insists on being accepted on his own terms, and audiences must bicker awhile before they're willing to give in. One learns not to be resentful about this condition but to credit it to human nature."
— William Inge (Four Plays: Come Back Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs)