Self-expression Quotes
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Self-expression quotes deal with reminding us of the importance of expressing our authentic self. So many of us wear masks in this world. We show one aspect of ourselves to the world...
...but our true self remains hidden. We are here to teach and share our knowledge. There will never be a better time to share your stories or sing your song. Do what it is you came to do. It is your destiny to share your talents with the world. Speak your truth. Express your uniqueness. In the entire world there is only one you. We are waiting for you to share your gifts with us all.
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The expressive arts are particularly suited to bring forth imagery, movement, sound, and writing that heighten our awareness of our polarities and to transcend them. By their natures, the creative arts help people approach their feelings and thoughts at a symbolic and metaphoric level. This level, in turn, makes it easier to integrate and transcend our dualistic patterns.
Natalie Rogers
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher Tweet this Quote!
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
Marcel Proust Tweet this Quote!
Make something every day. Make a song, make a move, make a friend, make a difference.
Pat Collelo Tweet this Quote!
Expressive arts work is less about changing people than about designing environments that arouse the healing and creative impulses latent in each of us.
Alan Briskin
The act of drawing is soul work; a path to the sacred and a movement toward realization, transformation, integration, nourishment, and wholeness.
Meinrad Craighead
Find a way to express what moves you.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Tweet this Quote!
Healing with art is a journey that will take you into the depths of your soul. There you will encounter parts of yourself that you never knew existed. As you create the artwork that exposes these parts of yourself so that you may know and understand them and the mysteries they hold, you will be healed.
Barbara Ganim - Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal your Body; Mind, and Spirit
I see art making as a way to tell me where I am in my own life story.
Cathy Malchiodi Tweet this Quote!
The creative spirit demands persistence.
Shaun McNiff Tweet this Quote!
I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?
Georgia O'Keefe
Expressive art therapy integrates all of the arts in a safe, non-judgmental setting to facilitate personal growth and healing.
Natalie Rogers
Involving yourself in creative process actually releases the blocks that have kept you from being creative. That is, as you explore and experiment with various forms of expression in a nonjudgmental environment, the inner critic, the need for approval, the fear of failure, and fears of the unknown can disappear.
Natalie Rogers - The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing
Our creativity is directly connected to our internal energy source and our willingness to face the unknown. Being in the space of silence, where everything and nothing exists, we cultivate the garden out of which creativity blooms.
Natalie Rogers - The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change
The creative process puts us in touch with our soul, our spirit, our inner wisdom. Self-expression through the creative arts – movement, art, music, and writing – is a sacred and often mystical experience, transforming pain, anger, fear, and grief into forms that nourish the soul.
Natalie Rogers - The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change
The journal’s only purpose is to be a mirror.
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To use the arts expressively means going into our inner realms to discover feelings and to express them through visual art, movement, sound, writing or drama. This process fosters release, self-understanding, insight and awakens creativity and transpersonal states of consciousness.
Natalie Rogers
We all need love and approval. Yet the key to unleashing our creative energy is finding the deepest sense of approval within ourselves. If we place the locus of our worth in the hands of others, we doom ourselves to a life of trying to please.
Natalie Rogers - The Creative Connection: Expressive Arts as Healing
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
Pablo Picasso Tweet this Quote!
Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.
Matthew Fox Tweet this Quote!
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. Lawrence
Through drawing, you are made visible.
Betty Edwards Tweet this Quote!
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding.
Robert Henri
Fostering creativity within yourself and others revitalizes the ability to feel, express, and act constructively – crucial competencies for our world.
Natalie Rogers - The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change
Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.
Han Hartung Tweet this Quote!
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Miles Davis Tweet this Quote!
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson Tweet this Quote!
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
Julia Cameron
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw Tweet this Quote!
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent van Gogh
I have found that it is the willingness to say what I feel and want that makes me feel whole.
Shakti Gawain Tweet this Quote!
Paint as you like and die happy.
Henry Miller Tweet this Quote!
No person is your friend who demands silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker Tweet this Quote!
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