Self Expression Quotes

If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art—and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

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.